Keystone XL Pipeline Sent Back for New Environmental Review
- Federal judge’s decision deals blow to project backed by Trump
- State Department must look at revised pipeline route: court
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The U.S. State Department must conduct a new environmental review for the Keystone XL crude pipeline, a federal judge ruled, dealing a blow to a project supported by President Donald Trump in his first few days in office.
U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris in Montana sided with indigenous and environmental groups in ruling Wednesday that a revised Keystone route is “interdependent” on the larger pipeline project and requires one environmental review.