- A group of 11 Senate Democrats, including five up for re-election this year, are pressing Pres. Obama to approve the Keystone XL (NYSE:TRP) pipeline by the end of next month.
- "The process has been exhaustive in its time, breadth, and scope,” the Democrats wrote in a letter; that process has been winding its way through a regulatory review within the administration for more than five years, and Obama has not said when he will make a final decision.
- The letter asks for a decision by May 31 because it’s a few weeks after the 90-day clock ends on the administration’s interagency review of the State Department’s environmental report on the pipeline, which was released Jan. 31.