Anchorage Daily Planet by Tom Brennan (NGP Photo).  Tom Brennan, ARCO, Anchorage Daily Planet, Anchorage Times, Keystone Pipeline Op-Ed, Obama, Photo by Dave HarbourPresident Barack Obama is pushing for serious damage to the world environment — and the greenies are cheering.  When Obama moved to block the Keystone XL Pipeline project he was virtually assuring that oil from the Athabasca tar sands will be consumed in China under Chinese standards, with a devastating net impact on the atmosphere. The alternative would have been to process in Texas the heavy oil from the tar sands, distributing much of it to American markets, all done under American standards and heavily regulated by federal agencies tasked with protecting the environment.