“President Obama is destroying tens of thousands of American jobs and shipping American energy security to the Chinese,” Boehner exclaimed. “There’s really no other way to put it. The President is selling out American jobs for politics. The President was given the authority to block this project only and only if he believed it was not in the national interest of the United States. It’s not in the national interest to create tens of thousands of jobs here in America with private investment? The President has said he’ll do anything he can to create jobs, today, that promise was broken.”

RELATED: Report: Obama Administration To Reject Keystone XL Pipeline

President Obama defended himself in a statement saying Republican’s hurried deadline on the issue forced him to make the decision.

“The rushed and arbitrary deadline insisted on by Congressional Republicans prevented a full assessment of the pipeline’s impact, especially the health and safety of the American people, as well as our environment,” Obama wrote. “I’m disappointed that Republicans in Congress forced this decision, but it does not change my Administration’s commitment to American-made energy that creates jobs and reduces our dependence on oil.”

Watch Boehner’s remarks Obama’s Keystone XL pipeline decision, and Shep Smith reading Obama’s statement via Fox News:

Deputy Secretary of State William Burns is expected to make the announcement at a 3pm briefing.

Goode notes that White House and State Department officials “have not commented publicly Wednesday, but Tuesday, White House spokesman Jay Carney indicated the administration was concerned about the lack of an alternative route in Nebraska.”

Congress had passed a provision giving the Obama Administration until February 21 to make a decision on the proposed 1,661-mile pipeline.

RELATED: Mike Gallagher Defends Keystone XL Pipeline: ‘We’re Just Polluting A Little Bit Of Water!’

Mother Jones environmental journalist Kate Sheppard earlier reported that President Obama’s hands were tied in the matter as “in order to approve the pipeline, he’d have to railroad the review process, which has not been completed yet. He’d also have to ignore a bunch of our nation’s fundamental environmental laws, like the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA).”

(h/t MoJo)

“Do you want children to have drinking water that’s polluted?” Colmes fired back at the conservative radio host.

“It’s offending these greenies! These kooks who are very important to the Obama re-election chances,” Gallagher exclaimed. “So this is a brilliant timing on his part. Let’s wait until after the election, we’ll deal with all of this later, but in the meantime, as Megyn points out, 20,000 jobs may be sacrificed in the name of political expediency.”

“The fact is that everything the president does by his detractors will be looked upon as some kind of political maneuver ,” Colmes observed. “You have to consider the fact that this would harm the environment and they’re now talking about re-routeing it, finding another place to go, another pipeline to use, and this may be just delayed, not permanently canceled.”

The Obama Administration earlier explained the delay reasoning that “this permit decision could affect the health and safety of the American people as well as the environment, and because a number of concerns have been raised through a public process we should take the time to ensure that all questions are properly addressed and all the potential impacts are properly understood.”

It will be interesting to see if Gallagher’s snarky trashing of environmentalists will become the standard bearer of pro-pollution talking points on the cable news shows.

Watch the two radio hosts battle it out over the Keystone XL pipeline below via Fox News:

“I do not believe in a cap and trade program,” Romney added. “By the way, they do not call it America warming, they call it global warming. So the idea of America spending massive amounts, trillions of dollars to somehow stop global warming is not a great idea. It loses jobs for Americans and ultimately it won’t be successful, because industries that are energy intensive will just get up and go somewhere else. So it doesn’t make any sense at all.”

The green blogosphere assailed the former Massachusetts governor for flip-flopping positions on the issue, calling out Romney for changing positons yet again on climate change. ThinkProgress’s Brad Johnson noted that Romney made a completely opposite statement in June: “I believe that humans contribute to that,” Romney said. “I don’t know how much our contribution is to that, because I know that there have been periods of greater heat and warmth in the past but I believe we contribute to that. And so I think it’s important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases.”

Grist’s Christopher Mims also slammed Romney. “If there’s one thing Mitt Romney’s good at, it’s turning directly into whatever political winds are blowing through the Republican base.”

While 97% of climate scientists agree that human activity is causing climate change, Romney perhaps read a recent Reuters poll that showed 43% of Republicans (and 49% of tea party members) believe global warming is the result of natural causes.

Watch Romney criticize cap and trade legislation below via ThinkProgress:

(h/t TP)

The centerpiece of the ad is audio of Romney saying in his commitment to fighting dirty coal plants, “I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant, that plant kills people.” The ad then asks “Sound Familiar?” and features Obama’s much-maligned quote saying “under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”

The gloves are coming off for Perry who is struggling to regain momentum in the race and this video spotlights his new attack line against Romney: that he’s too pro-environment to be the Republican nominee.

Watch Perry’s web attack ad below:

(h/t Politico)

Electra is participating in an environmental campaign called “Deforest Yourself, Reforest the World,” sponsored by Phillips Norelco and featuring events such as Electra shaving men’s chests for money. Electra brought Hannity a razor as a present– “you’re going to have some fun in your bathroom,” she told him– and repeatedly answered questions about the environment with come-ons like “you’re so romantic” and “I’m going to have fantasies.” She did specify, though, that she did not consider herself an environmentalist and only plants trees because “it’s a nice thing to do.” As for the great question of whether inner beauty exists, Electra gave a bold, if not unpredictable, answer.

Video below: