Confirmed: Hil­lary Clin­ton opposes Keystone XL Pipeline...

Time for unions to look elsewhere...

Hil­lary Clin­ton said Tues­day that she op­poses con­struc­tion of the Key­stone XL oil sands pipeline, an an­nounce­ment that ends years of de­clin­ing to weigh in on the con­tro­ver­sial pro­ject that en­vir­on­ment­al­ists are bat­tling hard to de­feat.

Clin­ton’s com­ments came just as most of Wash­ing­ton’s at­ten­tion was turned to the ar­rival of Pope Fran­cis in D.C. Ac­cord­ing to a copy of her re­marks provided by the pres­id­en­tial cam­paign, Clin­ton said, “I think it is im­per­at­ive that we look at the Key­stone Pipeline as what I be­lieve it is—a dis­trac­tion from the im­port­ant work we have to do to com­bat cli­mate change, and un­for­tu­nately, from my per­spect­ive, one that in­ter­feres with our abil­ity to move for­ward to deal with all the oth­er is­sues. There­fore, I op­pose it.”