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Obama Split Over Keystone Pipeline: Side With Christians, Environmentalists or Unions?

“The non-conventional oil that this pipeline is designed to transport produces … three times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional crude oil,” said Rose Berger, Tar Sands Action organizer for progressive Christian group Sojourners.

Berger and other members of the U.S. faith community have joined voices with the protesters because, they argue, the increased emissions will disproportionally harm the poor as well as damage the earth that God gave man stewardship over. 

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