President Obama on Wednesday rejected a transcontinental pipeline project that proponents say could have created more than 100,000 jobs and reduced the nation’s dependence on foreign oil by as much as a million barrels a day.

Congressional Republicans are now promising to keep the Keystone XL pipeline project alive through legislation, including a bill that would take the final approval out of the president’s hands and transfer it to the semi-independent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

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