{"id":5471,"date":"2012-03-22T07:24:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T12:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=5471"},"modified":"2012-03-22T07:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T12:25:00","slug":"obama-is-in-cushing-to-put-oklahomas-pipeline-on-a-fast-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/03\/22\/obama-is-in-cushing-to-put-oklahomas-pipeline-on-a-fast-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama is in Cushing to Put Oklahoma&#8217;s Pipeline on a &#8216;Fast Track&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5472\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"President Barack Obama speaks at an oil and gas production fields on federal lands in New Mexico.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/03\/obama-energy.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5472\" title=\"President Barack Obama\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/03\/obama-energy-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/03\/obama-energy-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/03\/obama-energy-500x335.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/03\/obama-energy-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/03\/obama-energy.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Mandel Ngan \/ AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Barack Obama speaks at an oil and gas production fields on federal lands in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>In a pipe yard in rural Oklahoma this morning, President Barack Obama is <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory\/obama-putting-oklahoma-pipeline-fast-track-15976313\">expected<\/a> to detail his plans to &#8220;fast-track&#8221; the approval of a 485-mile pipeline from Cushing to Texas.<\/p><p>The pipeline is the southern most segment of Keystone XL project, which he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/11\/us\/politics\/administration-to-delay-pipeline-decision-past-12-election.html?_r=1\">delayed<\/a> in November amid pressure from environmentalists and officials in Nebraska.<\/p><p>Cushing is <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/03\/21\/what-you-need-to-know-about-obamas-speech-in-cushing-oklahoma\/\">important<\/a> to the industry, and Obama&#8217;s stop in Oklahoma is strategic and significant.<\/p><p>Obama&#8217;s speech is closed to the public, but <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/stateimpactok\">follow us<\/a> on Twitter <strong>@StateImpactOK<\/strong> for updates from the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a pipe yard in rural Oklahoma this morning, President Barack Obama is expected to detail his plans to &#8220;fast-track&#8221; the approval of a 485-mile pipeline from Cushing to Texas.The pipeline is the southern most segment of Keystone XL project, which he delayed in November amid pressure from environmentalists and officials in Nebraska.Cushing is important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":5472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,14,16],"tags":[311,238,338],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}