It's the latest turn of the screw for a project that has depended on the occupant in the White House.
"The Canadian pipeline company that had long sought to build the Keystone XL pipeline announced Wednesday that it had terminated the embattled project," reports Coral Davenport.
The project would have carried petroleum from Canada to Nebraska, and it faced stiff resistance from protestors and legal battles in the decade-plus that developer TC Energy pushed for the project. The Obama administration was thought to have killed the project in 2015, but the Trump administration brought the project back from the dead.
One of the first acts of the Biden administration was to rescind the construction permit for the project, reversing the Trump administration's support for the project. Despite Trump's support, the project had stalled in courts—in 2018, a federal judge in Montana declared the environmental review for the project to be inadequate.
Now environmentalists are pushing for the Biden administration to take similar actions to halt stop Line 3, Dakota Access, and all fossil fuel projects, according to Davenport.
Read the full story: The Keystone XL pipeline project has been terminated.
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Supreme Court Guts the U.S. EPA’s Ability to Limit Carbon Emissions
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California plans to bury El Niño’s downpour
If the state plays its cards right, it may be able to store a billion acre-feet of El Niño’s water in aquifers.
Desperate measures: Advocates weigh draining Lake Powell to fill Colorado River
Draining the reservoir could reduce evaporation losses by a couple hundred thousand acre-feet.
Chicago voters approve permanent festival grounds, penalty for vacant property owners
Currently, major summer and fall festivals take over public parks for weeks at a time, drawing criticism from nearby residents
NYC votes to cut outdoor dining red tape, speed up permitting
New York City also voted to allow the Department of Transportation to begin work on urgent projects before notifying elected officials.
California appears to reject Prop. 45
The proposition would have expanded the projects that qualify for a streamlined environmental review, effectively paring down the California Environmental Quality Act.
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Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
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