Recent reports suggest that USTR has pressed the European Commission to alter its proposed treatment of tar sands crude oil in the FQD. … Just shifting from the average crude to tar sands crude in the amount that would be carried by the Keystone XL pipeline would raise U.S. carbon pollution by 1215 million metric tons over the next 50 years. He was chosen by Yatsenyuk, who was the person chosen by Nuland, who was the person chosen by Hillary Clinton and then by John Kerry, who were the people chosen by President Obama, to arrange this. Previously, Nuland had been Vice President Dick Cheney’s top foreign-policy advisor; so, Obama knew he was getting a solid fascist in her. Apparently, Obama is fighting like hell to do that — to eviscerate anti-global-warming rules — and so to turn this planet into hell.