New York Times columnist, Joe Nocera says it's "utterly boneheaded" for anyone to argue against the Keystone XL pipeline. Founding editor of Climate Progress and senior fellow at American Progress, Joe Romm, says not only is Nocera's argument wrong, it's completely unfair. We let the Joes hash it out over the Keystone pipeline proposal before the Senate's scheduled vote on Tuesday.
"A pipeline would be safer than the way it's already coming here, by train" @NoceraNYT starts with environmental argument FOR #KeystoneXL
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) November 18, 2014
"This is the huge pool of dirty carbon that a rational, moral world would leave in the ground" to save the climate: Joe Romm on #KeystoneXL
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"The notion that if you build the pipeline, you would stop shipping oil by train, too - I don't understand that." Joe Romm on #KeystoneXL
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"I am skeptical of the jobs claim." @NoceraNYT thinks there will be jobs building, but not running #KeystoneXL.
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Joes agree on #KeystoneXL : "This is a static project, it's not like you're building a manufacturing plant," Joe Romm, @climateprogress
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) November 18, 2014