Senate negotiators will begin working on a compromised bill and both bodies would go on that new version and send it on to President Trump for that. The Los Angeles Times has a story this morning the Nebraska Public Service commission has authorized a controversial Keystone Pipeline. Leave serious questions about whether or not the 8 billion pipeline will ever be built. 1179tone xl project miles from Northern Canada and nebraska is now gasping the readair of low oil prices, more in the Los Angeles Times today. The headline is from the omaha world herald and it says that it controversial pipeline is approved but hurdles likely remain. That is out of omaha. Joining us by phone right now is ellen gilmer, a legal reporter there. Guest thanks for having me. Host explain what regulators and nebraska decided and what it all means. Guest regulators decided that keystone xl can build its pipeline across the state. Trans canada, the company that backs the pipeline, did not get what it wanted. Trans canada had a certain route it wanted to build on and state regulators said you can build, but you need to build on this other route that tracks with an existing pipeline and would be a little less destructive to the environment. Host besides trans canada, what is the reaction to the decision regulators made so far . Guest environmentalists are promising to continue fighting the pipeline. Many of them are relieved that the preferred route that transcanada was pushing was not approved and they hope to throw some economic hurdles that would keep the pipeline from getting built. Landowners along the original route are relieved. Landowners who would be affected by the new route obviously have some concerns about that. Transcanada is keeping pretty mum about all of it. They said they are reviewing the decision and thinking about how its going to affect cost and scheduling. Host remind us how we got here. How did this project for start and what has the controversy been like since then . Guest its been a pretty wild ride. This pipeline was first proposed in 2008 so nearly a decade ago. The Obama Administration conducted about seven years of studies looking at environmental impacts, climate impacts, economic impacts. Eventually president obama rejected the pipeline a couple years ago. The Trump Administration when it came into power decided to revive the project. They signed off on the most important federal permit for the pipeline earlier this year. The Nebraska Public Service commission was sort of the last big state regulatory hurdle standing in the way of construction. Host we read just recently about an oil spill in the neighboring state, south dakota. What happened there exactly and will it impact this process moving forward . Guest thats right. There was an oil spill last week, about 5000 barrels of oil from the original Keystone Pipeline. That is keystone one as some people call it. Its the original Keystone Pipeline going through the area. Its billed it spilled in south dakota. The Public Service commission went right ahead with its decision. Some environmentalists and others have said that the commission should maybe hold off on a decision and look at this oil spill and see whether the new proposed pipeline could do the same. The psc made its decision. There is no real impacts other than renewed public pressure on regulators and trans canada to keep that from happening. Host you speak of public pressure. I was going to ask next of the legal challenges ahead following this nebraska decision. What are you expecting . Guest thats right. There definitely will be legal challenges. This is definitely not over. Will we see some new lawsuits in state court . Probably over the next month from environmental groups, indian tribes, landowners along the route, and even its possible transcanada to challenge the decision because as discussed, they did not get what they wanted. So far they have not committed to doing that, but thats a possibility. We will also see more pressure on the federal government to do a new or at least a supplemental Environmental Review now that the route has changed. A lot of folks think the federal government needs to take a fresh look at any impacts from that route. If the federal government decides not to do that, we would see new litigation on that issue. Host as we wrap up and get started with the conversation with the viewers, explain the overall purpose of this type line and whether transcanada is still interested in this project. Is it viable for them . Guest the pipeline would move oil from canadian oilsands in alberta down through the u. S. Through nebraska to connect to refineries and existing infrastructure toward the gulf coast. It would provide oil for us. Its an open question as to whether economics support the construction of the pipeline. Transcanada has said they are thinking about the cost of all this. They have an open season right now from potential oil shippers. They have said they have enough interest, but they dont have firm contracts just yet. We will just have to wait and see on that. Host anything else to look forward on the story . Guest keep looking out for the environmental pressure and pressure from tribes and landowners on both the State Government and federal government. Host ellen gilmer is a reporter for ene news. Thanks for the update on the keystone xl pipeline. Former Vice President joe biden and an Ohio Governor on how to deal with bipartisanship on the trump era. Degree, the Politics Today is a manifestation of the politics that have been brewing for a long time. Bork hearings. You are on the committee, you saw how raucous they were. Then we went through an impeachment and then we went through a republican revolution and we saw jim wright be driven out. Then we saw other publicans when the house for the first time in 40 years and democrats said, no, you never one. Won. U never you are right about that guy who yelled at the president. The next day put out a fundraiser and made money off of it. The system itself is breaking down because of base politics. That discussion taking place at the Biden Institute in delaware. You can watch the entire event tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Up next, the conversation on freedom, democracy and security. The u. N. Ssador to nikki haley talks about russian interference in the 2016 elections. It starts with former first lady laura bush. Thank you and good morning everyone. Welcome to today process spirit of liberty. 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