Nuked President Joe Biden issued an executive order on a broad range of environmental protections that included stopping construction of the keystone XL pipeline. Barack Obama denied a permit for the project in 2015, then Donald Trump reversed that decision and issued a permit.
The order directed federal agencies to review environmental rollbacks made under the Trump administration. That includes revisiting fuel efficiency standards and the boundaries for the bears ears and grand staircase Escalante national monuments.
Biden’s move’will put the U.S. back on the right footing, a footing we need to restore American leadership,’ Gina McCarthy said. The National climate advisor said Biden’s actions’will help to position our nation to be the global leader in clean energy and jobs’.
830,000 barrels of crude oil were expected to flow through the $ 8 billion Keystone XL pipeline every day. In an apparent last-minute attempt to get the project in Biden’s good graces, on January 17th, the company said it would spend $ 1.7 billion to purchase enough renewable energy to match the pipeline’s power consumption by 2030.
Native American tribes, activists, and environmentalists have fought to stop the 1,210-mile-long pipeline from being built. Obama backed away from the pipeline just before the adoption of the Paris climate agreement.
The Rosebud Sioux tribe, and the Assiniboine and Gros Ventre tribes of the fort Belknap Indian reservation filed lawsuits against the administration. They say the administration failed to consult with the tribes and that the pipeline poses a danger to their lands and water sources.
Biden’s climate change plan includes goals to get us to’100 percent clean energy’ by 2050. He also recommitted the US to the Paris climate agreement today.
There are calls to stop the enbridge line 3 project, a plan to abandon an aging pipeline that runs between Alberta and the Midwestern us.
