Some of Hollywood’s biggest elites — including Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin and Robert Redford — are getting in on the Keystone Pipeline XL political action, telling President Obama in no uncertain terms: Veto the bill and put an end to the project.
Neil Young and Willie Nelson weighed in and asked the president to do the same, the National Journal reported.
“Rejecting Keystone XL is the kind of the principled choice leaders need to make,” the celebrities wrote in a letter to the White House that included the signatures of more than 100 environmentalists, elected officials and progressive leaders. “There is no way to reconcile this pipeline with a serious climate policy.”
Republicans and some Democrats support the project. But hardcore environmentalists have been pressuring Mr. Obama for some time to outright reject it. At the same time, unions have been pushing him to support it, saying the 40,000 or so jobs that are predicted to be created from its development and management would do far toward bolstering jobs’ numbers.
• Cheryl K. Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.
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