Obama kills Keystone pipeline

Published November 6, 2015 4:20pm ET



The Keystone XL pipeline was rejected by the Obama administration Friday.

TransCanada, the company looking to build the pipeline, applied for a presidential permit on the pipeline more than seven years ago. It had been widely believed that the Obama administration was going to reject the pipeline before the United Nations talks on climate change in Paris, which start Nov. 30.

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