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Keystone Pipeline Permit Denial is Sound Energy Policy / Adam Riedel, CCCL Associate Director, Climate law blog, 20 January 2012http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2012/01/20/keystone-pipeline-permit-denial-is-sound-energy-policy/With much fanfare and angst, on January 18 the Obama administration denied a permit for the hotly contested Keystone pipeline which would carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta to refineries in the Gulf Coast of the U.S. The decision over the pipeline has become a political football over the past several months with highly publicized protests against the pipeline contrasted with dire warnings of economic Armageddon and inflamed rhetoric by pipeline supporters...