Barack Obama belittled the Keystone XL pipeline debate even as he brought it to a close . The project, which would have delivered heavy, oil-sands crude from Western Canada to the Gulf Coast, “has occupied what I, frankly, consider an overinflated role in our political discourse,” he said Friday. “It became a symbol too often used as a campaign cudgel by both parties rather than a serious policy matter.” Mr. President, the cudgelers are just getting started. The environmental movement is on the march again, perhaps more so than at any time since concerns about acid rain led Congress to pass the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. As political symbols go, Keystone XL was a potent one. It hung over the White House for several years and sparked all-around congressional fury. And, as a bonus for the […]