Federal Judge Tosses Lawsuit Challenging Biden’s Authority To Block Keystone Pipeline

Pipeline project is now officially dead

“The court takes TC Energy at its word that Keystone XL is dead,” US District Court Judge (for Southern District of Texas) Jeffrey Brown wrote in the ruling on Thursday. “And because it is dead, any ruling this court makes on whether President Biden had the authority to revoke the permit would be advisory. Thus, the court has no jurisdiction and the case must be dismissed as moot.”

Brown declined to directly rule on whether it was within Biden’s constitutional authority to issue the order.