(The pipeline, by the way, would cross predominantly red states).
I can't let them build a pipeline by my son's grave".
The State Department is expect to produce its final environmental analysis of the pipeline by the end of the month.
But it would open up the political pipeline by making it easier for new, modestly financed candidates to compete.
The Obama administration had been due to decide on the fate of the pipeline by the end of the year.
In July, the House passed a bill directing the president to decide on the pipeline by Nov. 1.
The State Department will decide whether to approve or reject the pipeline by the end of the year.
Constructing the pipeline, by this logic, would have no real-world consequences, for, as the Post put it, "symbolic gestures … have no impact on climate change".
Until now, Amgen has been trying to augment its product pipeline by buying rights to drugs in development by other companies.
One month ago, a secret poll of "energy insiders" by the National Journal found that "virtually all" expected easy approval of the pipeline by year's end.
A poll last year by The Omaha World-Herald showed Nebraskans supported construction of the pipeline by more than two to one.
