WH advisor: Keystone 'almost certainly impossible'

One of President Obama’s top economic advisors said that the Keystone XL pipeline “almost certainly” will not be approved, despite its potential as a job-creating measure, because the environmental studies will not be finished within the 60 days in which Congress required Obama to make a decision.

“If [State Department officials] were only given 60 days to look at alternative routes in Nebraska and do the serious environmental and health reviews,” explained Sperling, director of Obama’s National Economic Council, during a CNN interview, “[it] would make it almost certainly impossible to extend that permit.”