Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben was interviewed for this article on the next big climate fight after President Obama’s rejection of Keystone XL.

From the article:

You said recently that this new fight against Exxon Mobil reminds you of the early days of the Keystone fight. How so?

The day that we knew there really was going to be a Keystone fight in the biggest, broadest sense was the day I got out of jail with a couple of other people. This was the very first wave of arrests. We spent three days in jail. When we got out, Gus Speth, the founder of the National Resources Defense Council, and I wrote a letter to the heads of all of the big environmental groups asking them if they would join together in telling the White House to stop the pipeline. And they all did, even the more corporate and conservative ones. It was a remarkable show of unity, and I really had not see unity like that on a difficult question again until last week when the heads of every big environmental group joined together in this letter to the Department of Justice saying, “You’ve got to investigate Exxon.” To me, that was a signal that this had risen to the same kind of level — that everyone was feeling the same kind of visceral revulsion at the deceit that Exxon had practiced.