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That power now belongs to nebraska's public service commission which now must approve a new route. a result that may well give president obama no choice but to delay the politically explosive decision over whether to give the pipeline final approval. joining me, elana shore for "green wire." and nikki silvestri. elana, you have been going great reporting out of nebraska on precisely this fight. were you surprised by this federal judge's ruling yesterday? >> honestly, chris, i wasn't. the landowners had a pretty strong case here. you know, heineman came back and changed the rules for trans-cana...

>> where something starts, when we're talking about a federal investigation, is not necessarily where it ends up, and where something starts in a federal investigation, in which the power of the law looms over all people. do you want to go to jail or do you want to talk? do you want to go to jail or do you want to wear a wire? when that is brought to bear, lord knows what gets discovered? >> and i don't think he's thinking about the right things right now. at some point in a case like this, your political interests diverge from your legal interests. and you talked, governor, about him meeting ...

Virginia, people still aren't sure if they should drink the water. asked today if the tap water was safe to drink, governor tom told reporter, i'm not making this up. it's your decision. joining me, a reporter from green wire. ala alana, the context for cliff forrest and coal is this incredible kind of upsurge of political activism we saw from the coal industry and coal companies and coal owners around the 2012 election which became for them a kind of waterloo battle. right? this idea coal was going to be killed if barack obama was re-elected? >> absolutely, chris. this started, in fact, in 20...

Facilities like this, to tackle west virginia, because they say they'll be more support for that for exactly the reasons you just talked about. >> everything you need to know about the state of environmental regulation in this country. short from green wire. thanks for reporting on this. >> thank you. coming up, the martin luther king jr. they won't be telling you about. ♪ stacy's mom has got it goin' on ♪ ♪ stacy's mom has got it goin' on ♪ ♪ stacy's mom has got it goin' on ♪ [ male announcer ] the beautifully practical and practically beautiful cadillac srx. lease this 2014 cad...

Told reporters, and i am not making this up, it's your decision. joining me now, alana shore, reporter at green wire. alana, the context for cliff forrest and coal is this incredible kind of upsurge of political activism that we saw from the coal industry and coal companies and coal owners around the 2012 election, which became for them, a kind of waterloo battle, right? this idea that coal was going to be killed if barack obama was re-elected. >> absolutely, chris. and you know, this started, in fact, in 2010, when coal companies just packed money into john boehner's coffers, when his republi...