{"id":19106,"date":"2013-07-12T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T05:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/as-obama-weighs-his-decision-most-americans-support-building-keystone-pipeline\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:44:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:44:33","slug":"as-obama-weighs-his-decision-most-americans-support-building-keystone-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2013\/07\/12\/as-obama-weighs-his-decision-most-americans-support-building-keystone-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"As Obama weighs his decision, most Americans support building Keystone pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/06\/25\/remarks-president-climate-change\">major address<\/a> last month on his plans to deal with climate change, President Obama said he would give his approval to building of the Keystone pipeline &#8220;only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.&#8221; Since then, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/battle-rages-over-obamas-climate-standards-for-keystone-xl-pipeline\/2013\/07\/10\/3f1102be-e98f-11e2-aa9f-c03a72e2d342_story.html\">lobbying continues to be fierce<\/a> by supporters and opponents of the 1,700-mile pipeline that would carry Canadian oil from Alberta to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/07\/DN_Keystone_Pipeline.png\"><img data-dominant-color=\"f0f0f0\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f0f0f0;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"307\" height=\"496\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2013\/07\/DN_Keystone_Pipeline.png?resize=307,496 307w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 480px, (max-width: 782px) 782px, 640px\" class=\"wp-image-29672 not-transparent\" alt=\"DN_Keystone_Pipeline\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2013\/07\/DN_Keystone_Pipeline.png\" ><\/a><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A<a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/2013\/04\/02\/keystone-xl-pipeline-draws-broad-support\/\"> Pew Research Center survey<\/a> conducted in mid-March found that 66% of Americans favored building the pipeline while 23% opposed doing so. Support for the pipeline cut across partisan and demographic lines. Substantial majorities of Republicans (82%) and independents (70%) favor building the Keystone XL pipeline, as do 54% of Democrats. Among Democrats, 60% of party moderates and conservatives support the pipeline compared to 42% of liberals.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The finding comes at a time when most Americans believe in evidence of global warming but disagree about the causes. About seven-in-ten (69%) say there is solid evidence that the earth&#8217;s average temperature has been getting warmer over the past few decades, about the same number expressing this view last year. Unlike views on Keystone, there is a partisan gap on this question: 87% of Democrats believe there is solid evidence of global warming compared with 44% of Republicans.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><!--more-->There is also less agreement on the causes. About four-in-ten (42%) of all Americans attribute the cause of global warming to human activity, 23% say it is the result of natural patterns, while 27% do not believe in evidence of warming at all. Nearly six-in-ten (57%) Democrats believe warming is caused by human activity compared with 23% of Republicans. <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/politics\/2013\/04\/02\/keystone-xl-pipeline-draws-broad-support\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-thirds of Americans, including majorities among partisan groups, favor building the Keystone XL pipeline that would transport oil from Canada to U.S. 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