华盛顿万人游行 抗议输油管道工程(2/2)

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概述：总统再度关注气候变化，管道工程项目前景未明，项目支持者与反对者各执一词。
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The State Department is scheduled to release a new environmental impact statement on the pipeline project after authorities changed the planned construction path to bypass ecologically sensitive areas. But the project's future remains uncertain, following the president's renewed focus on climate change.
And after a four-and-a-half-year-long hold on building it, critics accuse the Obama administration of unnecessarily impeding America's energy independence and preventing the creation of tens of thousands of jobs.
"I believe that the president has been overly political in catering to so-called green energy private investors, as well as others, when our carbon dioxide emissions are lower now than they've been in 20 years."
Just like these protesters, proponents of the pipeline plan on holding their own grassroots events across the country in support of the project's approval.美国当局修改了原计划的输油管道路径，绕开了生态敏感的区域。之后，国务院将会重新发表输油管道项目对环境影响的报告。但是，随着总统重新开始关注气候变化问题，该项目的未来仍然充满不确定性。
奥巴马政府在输油管道的建设上磨了四年半之久还迟迟没有行动，评论家认为这样做是完全没有必要的，还会妨害美国的能源独立并且错失创造数以万计的工作岗位的机会。
“20年来，我们的二氧化碳排放量已经减了不少了，总统（在输油管道建设上）如此迎合那些所谓的绿色能源私人投资者和其他一些团体，这样未免过于政治化了。”
和反对者们一样，输油管道的支持者们打算在全国各地继续他们的草根活动来支持输油管道项目的批准。