Muscatine

10/11/2011:

Hillary Clinton’s public pipeline problems started last year in October when she said she was “inclined to support” the approval of the pipeline because “we’re either going to be dependent on dirty oil from the Gulf or dirty oil from Canada.” When asked whether she meant to say what she did, a State Department spokesman replied, “She did.” This brought a public outcry from the editorial page of the Lincoln Star Journal, calling her comments “inexcusable.” Nebraska’s U.S. Senate delegation joined in an unusual bipartisan condemnation, with the conservative Democrat Ben Nelson calling her words “irresponsible and unacceptable,” and Republican Senator Mike Johanns calling them “premature” and “unfortunate.”

Earkier post: The three bullet points that cover this point in the rider couldn’t be much clearer: First, “the final environmental impact statement issued by the Secretary of State on August 26, 2011, satisfies all requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 . . . and section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act.” Second, “any [my emphasis] modification” to the route “shall not require supplementation of the final environmental impact statement . . .” Third, “no further Federal environmental review shall be required.”