Biden admin to be sued by red states over revocation of Keystone XL permit, suit argues president lacks authority
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A group of red states will file a lawsuit on Thursday against the Biden administration for revoking the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, which the president did via executive order on his first day in office, Fox News has learned.
The lawsuit, first obtained by Fox News, is led by Montana and Texas, and backed by 19 other states, including Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming. It names President Biden and several of his Cabinet secretaries as defendants.
The lawsuit says that the president in issuing his Jan. 20 executive order and his Cabinet officials in enforcing it are exceeding their authorities under both the Constitution and the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). '
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said the suit is aiming to salvage a project that was a lifeline for his state.
"This pipeline was set to go through six counties in extreme Eastern Montana… five of those counties are already designated as high-poverty counties," he told Fox Business "The project was set to become the largest property taxpayer in all of those counties… That's out the window. Just shy of 4,000 jobs, that's out the window."
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