NRDC in the News 11/3: Keystone XL protest early coverage, shale gas and more...

John Adams spoke with Reuters about Sunday’s protest of the Keystone XL pipeline, which will mark his first visit to the White House since President Obama awarded him a Medal of Freedom this year; John noted that the President's decision on the pipeline would signal whether we are moving toward a path of clean energy… Susan Casey-Lefkowitz spoke to NPR’s Morning Edition highlighting the significance of President Obama’s pipeline decision and warning that increased tar sands expansion will undermine the president’s clean energy agenda… Liz Barratt-Brown spoke with CBSNews.com, citing our concerns about the pipeline’s water contamination and carbon emissions issues that the president will be weighing…

In an interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Anthony Swift remarked that even if Nebraska won a rerouting of the Keystone XL pipeline, “there will still be a significant opposition to expanded production of tar sands”… NRDC was cited in a Bloomberg article about shale gas development… KPCC’s Pacific Swell blog post referred to Amanda Eaken’s blog post on San Diego Association of Governments plan to adopt the first Sustainable Communities Strategy to implement SB 375 in California and was quoted on LAStreetsblog about the Southern California Association of Governments vote today… In an interview with The Atlantic Cities, MacArthur genius architect Jeanne Gang discussed about her collaboration with NRDC on the book, Reverse Effect, which outlines creative concepts for greening the Chicago River while rebuffing the advance of Asian carp…