Silicon Valley billionaire Tom Steyer has generated lots of adoring coverage in the mainstream media with his promise to spend $100 million to elect Democrats who oppose the Keystone XL pipeline.

Fighting Keystone, which would carry millions of barrels of Canadian tar sands oil south to U.S. refineries, is just one part of Steyer’s activism on behalf of “green” energy and against fossil fuels, including coal and natural gas.

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