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The Keystone-Cushing pipeline phase connected the Keystone pipeline (phase 1) in Steele City, Nebraska, south through Kansas to the oil hub and tank farm in Cushing, Oklahoma, a distance of 468 kilometres (291 mi) long. It was constructed in 2010 and went online in February 2011.
Executive Order 13990, officially titled Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis [1] is an executive order signed by President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021, which implements various environmental policies of his administration including revoking the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline [2] and temporarily prohibiting drilling in the ...
Construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (shown above) resumed under the Trump administration The construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access had been placed on hold by then-president Barack Obama, who considered it a major contributor to climate change due to the greenhouse gas intensive extraction of oil from tar sands . [ 93 ]
Native American and Indigenous peoples groups said they know they have an ally in Biden. But they are all too familiar with the transient nature of executive action.
In an order Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Transportation tightened regulations on the Keystone Pipeline operator and demanded safety testing to avoid more spills like one last year in northern ...
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The signing of this executive order came on the same day that Trump signed Presidential memoranda intended to permit the construction of the Keystone XL, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and stipulated that all new pipelines in the United States must be constructed using materials and equipment produced in the United States. [3] [4]
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