"With this new route submitted and the state of Nebraska acting to move forward, the president is running out of excuses for blocking the Keystone pipeline any longer, " House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told CNN.
McKibben repeated the trick a year ago when he rallied the largest environmental protest ever outside the White House to halt the Keystone XL pipeline an effort that turned the pipeline from a done deal to a political hot potato whose outcome is still in doubt.