Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Biden administration demanding reinstatement of Keystone XL Pipeline permit

[DonViejo]

Source: The Texas Tribune/RawStory

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Biden administration demanding reinstatement of Keystone XL Pipeline permit

Shannon Najmabadi, The Texas Tribune
March 18, 2021

Twenty-one states, led by Texas and Montana, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Biden administration for revoking a permit for the long-disputed Keystone XL pipeline.

The complaint, filed in a Texas federal district court by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, argues the president exceeded his authority when he canceled the pipeline's permit after being sworn in on Jan 20. The decision should rest with Congress, according to the lawsuit.

The project was supposed to move Canadian crude oil to the U.S. — and on to Texas Gulf Coast refineries. But it has been a flashpoint in fights over economic development, fossil fuels and environmentalism.

Biden said in an executive order revoking the permit that letting it remain was inconsistent with his administration's "economic and climate imperatives."

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-sues-biden-administration-demanding-reinstatement-of-keystone-xl-pipeline-permit/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. If that's the case, Trump lacked authority to approve it?

We'll all be driving EV's by the time Texas loses in the courts

[JohnnyRingo]

2. Texas probably has most to lose

In jobs anyway, because the refineries and port is there where workers can load the oil onto tankers.

Texas should be leading the way in solar panel development.

[JT45242]

16. The great myth of the XL pipeline -- jobs when it is finished

Long term there will be about 50 permanent jobs at a couple of refineries including one in the plains states. So Texas is suing over a potential 30 jobs. Seems like all the money spent on this could have created more jobs by fixing bridges or more importantly in Texas, regulating and upgrading their electrical power grid.

[soothsayer]

3. Can that guy go to jail already?

[marble falls]

4. Someone paid off a lot of oil producing states to get them to permit the special crap that ...

Keystone will pipe across the agricultural areas over the largest aquifers in the US.

[TheRealNorth]

5. Why would we want oil going down to Texas??

They can't even weatherproof their refineries.

[Fullduplexxx]

6. Great point... oil refinery isnt safe in texas

[Fullduplexxx]

7. Gop should be getting billed for a abuse of the courts

[Lonestarblue]

8. Ken Paxton isn't happy unless he's filing a lawsuit every week.

By doing so, he wastes millions of our taxpayer dollars that are needed to fund public schools and improve our infrastructure. Republicans here don’t seem to care how much money the Texas state administration wastes so long as they can have a legislature that doesn’t regulate anything, leaving people to freeze to death in power outages or forcing them into the streets when they get evicted because of a job loss.

[SharonClark]

11. So true.

[flying_wahini]

12. You nailed it, LSB

[machoneman]

13. Yep! Deflect ad infinitum of Texas' failures is so, so many areas, most recently the power failures.

Yeah, the MAGATS must love Paxton wasting millions in pursuing frivolus lawsuits they end up paying for. Just think of all the good those millions (state employees + no doubt GOP private lawyers) could have done for the residents!

[yaesu]

9. Remembering all the tRump Federal judges the repukes rushed threw, applying their own Senate rules

that fit them.

[ananda]

10. Our trifecta of evil are batshit mean and lawsuit crazy.

And they are criminals themselves, especially Paxton.

[Dakota Flint]

14. What happens

If an extremely corrupt, criminal, and altogether shitty state attorney general loses its license to practice law? Asking for a close friend.

[Mr.Bill]

15. He runs for Congress

in a Texas gerrymandered district.

And wins.

[Yeehah]

17. Stuff a sock in it, Paxton

you traiorous piece of garbage.

[quaker bill]

18. I understand that it was a "Presidential Permit" in the first place

In short, if Trump signed it, Biden can revoke it.

[jmowreader]

19. Does Texas even have standing to file a suit against this?

Keystone XL only was supposed to go through four states, and Texas isn’t one of them.