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SUMMARY: Thousands of people marched on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to protest the pending approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline, which would carry crude oil from Canada to refineries in Texas, has been a point of contention in the climate change debate for four years. Recently 44 Republican and nine Democratic senators wrote to ask President Obama to approve construction. Unions also back the project, but environmentalists argue the pipeline will disrupt farms in the heartland of America and leave a large carbon footprint.
Judy Woodruff examined both sides of the debate with Bob Deans from the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the organizers of the protest, and Scott Segal, a lobbyist and partner with a firm representing a number of energy companies pushing for the Keystone Extension.
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