Washington D.C. - Not even a week after winning the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline, environmental activists are staging a rally hours before Barack Obama delivers the annual State of the Union address. Their main focus is not just the President, but others in Congress who they see as too influenced by the oil and gas industries.
Dressed as referees, the activists are planning to “blow the whistle” at lawmakers who have taken financial contributions from the lobbying groups, but haven't specified who exactly would be the targets.
The founder of one group, 350.org's Bill McKibben, said they plan to keep the environment one of the key issues of the 2012 elections. Some of the other groups are National Resources Defense Council and Greenpeace.
Due to the fact the Keystone XL pipeline would increase the amount of greenhouse gases dramatically as well as destroy a major source of water, environmentalists plan on stopping the project altogether, even going so far as to pledge to not vote in the next election. President Obama, with his disenfranchised base, needs all the votes he can get and the threatened sit-out of the environmental groups would be a devastating blow to his re-election chances.
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