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Another blue-collar union asks Senate Dems to support Keystone XL

By Mark Tapscott
Published May 12, 2014 4:00am ET
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Another blue-collar union asks Senate Dems to support Keystone XL
Large sections of pipe are shown on a neighboring property to Julia Trigg Crawford family farm in Sumner, Texas. (AP/Tony Gutierrez) | Tony Gutierrez

Senators are hearing from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in an appeal for approval of the Keystone XL pipeline project.

The IBEW is the latest of the growing number of traditional blue-collar unions taking an aggressive pro-Keystone position opposed in large part by Big Green environmentalists and their Democratic supporters in the Obama administration.

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