The White House says that U.S. President Barack Obama will veto legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.
The pipeline is intended to run from the tar sands fields of Canada down through the United States to the refineries of Texas and Louisiana.
As our Washington correspondent Priscilla Huff reports, the bill was expected to be the first political battle of the new year.
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