McKibben believes Keystone decision unlikely tomorrow; still confident of stopping pipeline
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From email:
"Friends,
Well, some good news: five years in, we're starting to see at least the outlines of a strategy from President Obama to deal with climate change.
He's clearly heard the clamor that you have raised, and Tuesday at 1:35 PM EDT, he will make a speech in DC laying out his plans.
We hope you'll join in watching it -- there will be a 350.org virtual watch party, hosted on our site, where you can watch and see analysis as it happens via our Twitter account. For those of you who use twitter, tweet in with the hashtag #ForwardOnClimate to be a part of the conversation on our site. If you can bring together friends or even some coworkers around for a quick break to watch with us, that would be excellent too.
To join the watch party, just click here when the time comes: act.350.org/thanks/watch-party-obama-climate-speech/
If you'd like a reminder to tune in, just click this link and we'll send you an email a little bit before the speech tomorrow: act.350.org/sign/obama-watch-party-reminder/
As for the speech itself, here's what I'm hoping for: tough action on emissions from coal-fired power plants. Local activists and groups like the Sierra Club have done a great job in facing down the expansion plans of the coal industry in recent years, blocking dozens of proposed coal plants. The industry is weakened enough that the administration may be willing to challenge it more directly with regulations on existing power plants -- and this would be indeed be an important step forward.
And here's what I'm not expecting: anything at all about the Keystone XL pipeline. That is still wending its way through a twisted bureaucratic process. But if I was being optimistic, I'd say tomorrow's speech makes eventual victory more likely: the President is above all a logical man, and kicking off a climate action plan only to approve a tar sands pipeline is like saying you're ready to quit smoking then buying a carton of Marlboros.
At any rate, we'll do all that we can think of to keep up the pressure. If this were a race, you can think of this speech as the starter's pistol, after a long slog to get the runners all lined up. There is still a race yet to run.
Your hard work made this possible. Given the siege of extreme weather we now see daily around the planet, it's one of many steps we need to take. But it is in the right direction, and that’s good news.
Bill McKibben"
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But maybe he was inside! I was outside with the enviro-protesters- <350 supporters and a Sierra Club group and mostly people with anti-Keystone pipeline signs.
McKibben did walk by me at a rally once though!, which I'm sure I've bragged about here before. I think he's so cool 
