Petcoke - toxic hazard growing due to Oil Sand imports

This is part of the problem with not doing keystone. The gulf refineries already export coke, the mid west refineries don't have the infrastructure. China is not the only country that wants to buy it. The US also exports coal, but that must be mined, coke is a byproduct of getting the gasoline and diesel that the country uses.

Now if you want to reduce coke use, but are happy with it piling up, then by all means the current policy of pretending refining oil sands in the midwest greatly reduces ghg. But such is not the case, those countries would just buy coal if it was as cheap as coke. The way to reduce the US's use of oil sands would be to greatly reduce oil consumption, not play these games about coke. Build the pipeline, tax the oil and coal, all the oil and coal, and the US footprint will go down.