Clinton, Sanders And O'Malley Praise Obama's Rejection Of Keystone Pipeline

WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley praised President Barack Obama 's Friday rejection of TransCanada's application  to build the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have transported oil across the United States-Canada border. 

The State Department had spent seven years reviewing the proposed project. On Friday, Obama announced that his administration had concluded the pipeline would not serve the United States' national interests. In rejecting the Canadian company's application, the department concluded that it would not contribute significantly to the economy, would not lower gas prices and would not enhance American energy security. 

Clinton, who came out against the pipeline  in September, said on Twitter that the decision was the "right call."

Sanders, who has criticized Clinton for the amount of time it took her to announce that she, too, opposed the pipeline, sent out a statement lauding the administration's decision. 

"Climate change is a global environmental crisis of huge magnitude," the senator wrote in a statement. "It is insane for anyone to be supporting the excavation and transportation of some of the dirtiest fuel on earth. As someone who has led the opposition to the Keystone pipeline from Day 1, I strongly applaud the president’s decision to kill this project once and for all." 

O'Malley used his statement to reiterate his campaign's major argument that he's the only candidate to have "gotten results."