Texas and Montana lead coalition of states suing Biden’s government over Keystone pipeline

Texas and Montana lead coalition of states suing Biden’s government over Keystone pipeline

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Austin Attorney General Austin Knudsen argued in the complaint that Congress, not Biden, has the power to change policy.

Biden’s order “mentions no legal or other authority that allows the president to change the energy policy as enacted by Congress in this way,” Paxton and Knudsen wrote in the complaint, arguing that “the president does not have the power to “ambitious plan ‘to reform. the economy despite Congress’s unwillingness to do so.”

The Attorney General of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North, is with the Attorney General of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Indiana , Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming in a challenge from Biden’s move.

Biden revoked the permit for the pipeline on his first day in office through executive action as part of a series of movements aimed at combating climate change, which also includes the re-accession of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and ‘ a temporary moratorium on oil and gas leasing in the Arctic.

Keystone XL, a planned pipeline that would transport oil from the tarred beach of Canada to the United States, was a political football between climate activists and the oil industry.

The oil industry and Republicans condemned Biden’s decision in January to revoke the permit for the controversial pipeline. The move led to the dismissal of ‘thousands of union workers’, according to TC Energy, the Canadian company behind the Keystone pipeline.
Climate and energy experts, meanwhile, told CNN that the project was not in line with the Biden government’s climate goals and with U.S. energy needs in light of the existing oil supply. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, the former governor of Michigan, said the Department of Energy had created a job office that would work ‘hand in glove’ with the department’s fossil fuel officials to make sure we ‘did not leave any workers behind. ‘.

The position and actions of the Biden government to date on climate change point to a significant departure from that of former President Donald Trump, who granted the permit for the controversial pipeline and was a fierce advocate for the fossil fuel industry. Among other things, Trump removed environmental regulations, tried to save coal miners, installed a former coal lobbyist to lead the US Environmental Protection Agency and helped save an agreement with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to save shale oil producers save.

CNN’s Matt Egan contributed to this report.

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