Attorneys General of 21 states have filed suit to overturn President Biden’s executive order shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline, among the most absurd of the “Green New Deal” dictates of the numerous executive orders Biden put his name to. AP reports that AGs Ken Paxton of Texas and Austin Knudsen of Montana are leading the effort, arguing that the order overstepped the President’s authority in revoking the permit for the project, which was already well underway. They assert that because the pipeline would run through multiple U.S. states, Congress should have the final say over whether it’s built.
Construction on the 1,200-mile (1,930-kilometer) pipeline began last year when former President Donald Trump stopped the sabotage started by the Obama Administration.
The pipeline would move up to 830,000 barrels (35 million gallons) of crude daily from the oil sand fields of western Canada to Steele City, Nebraska, where it would connect to other pipelines that feed oil refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The oil will be delivered in any case, by truck, which is actually more dangerous than the pipeline.
