"Hillary Clinton: Protect Obama's Environmental Actions"

"NEW YORK — Steps that President Barack Obama has taken to help the environment must be protected, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said, but she avoided the contentious issue of the Keystone XL pipeline in remarks to a group that vigorously opposes it.

Clinton spoke Monday at a dinner of the League of Conservation Voters, which has come out strongly in urging elected officials to reject the project. Her speech followed a private fundraising event for a senator who supports the pipeline.

Clinton stopped short of making any direct reference to the Keystone project, which would run from Canada to Nebraska, connecting existing pipelines to carry more than 800,000 barrels of crude oil a day to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast."

Deepti Hajela reports for the Associated Press December 2, 2014.