Shutting Down Progress

Despite record high gas prices, environmentalists celebrate shutting down something that could have helped, the Keystone SL pipeline.

A Classic Stossel from 2015.

America is blessed with abundant resources and cursed with boneheaded regulators.

Environmentalists collude with the EPA to block economic progress.

EPA bureaucrats thousands of miles away shut down a mine in Alaska to save fish two hundred miles downstream and fired hundreds of workers in the process.

Now, after a decade of delays, environmentalists have also shut down the Keystone SL pipeline.