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Austin Knudsen of Montana, the states said
Biden had overstepped his authority when he revoked the permit for the Keystone pipeline on his first day in office. Some moderate Democratic lawmakers also have urged Biden to reverse his decision, including
Sens. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana.Because the line would run through multiple U.S. states, Congress should have the final say over whether it's built, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Texas.
Construction on the 1,200-mile (1,930-kilometer) pipeline began last year when former President Donald Trump revived the long-delayed project after it had stalled under the Obama administration. It would move up to 830,000 barrels (35 million gallons) of crude daily from the oil sand fields of western Canada to Steele City, Nebraska, where it would connect to other pipelines that feed oil refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Biden canceled its permit over
longstanding concerns that burning oil sands crude would make climate change worse.
Comment: Lawsuits for Biden's clueless policies are ramping up.
Ohio is suing Biden administration over his tax mandate in coronavirus aid:
Ohio's top lawyer on Wednesday sued the Biden administration over its $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, saying a last-minute change in the legislation unlawfully blocks state lawmakers from managing their budgets as they see fit.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, asked a federal judge in the state to halt implementation of a part of the relief bill, known as the "tax mandate," that prohibits coronavirus relief money from being used to subsidize tax cuts:
"Slipping last-minute conditions into a plan meant to help people that instead handcuffs Ohio is why people don't trust government. And it almost always leads to constitutional mischief."
Yost filed the lawsuit against the U.S. Treasury Department, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Democrats added new language into the legislation after several senators from the party's moderate wing said they worried Republican-led states would use the relief money to subsidize tax cuts, rather than funding public services. The tax mandate prohibits states that take money under the relief bill from using that funding to "directly or indirectly" offset revenue loss. Yost's lawsuit alleges that "Congress lacks constitutional authority to limit the States' taxing power in this manner."
Separately, 21 Republican state attorneys general on Tuesday sent a letter threatening to sue the Biden administration over the tax mandate, saying it imposed "unprecedented and unconstitutional" limits on their states' ability to lower taxes.
Biden signed the popular relief program into law on March 11, promising that it would aid the recovery from a recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The bill provides $400 billion for direct payments of $1,400 to most Americans, aid of $350 billion to state and local governments, an expansion of the child tax credit and more funds to distribute vaccines.
Biden's 'unfounded concerns' have become the bedrock of his policies, which happens to include the pipeline 'to nowhere'.
As long as big oil has this much power, they will do everything they can to stymie innovation. Combustion is not the pinnacle of energy production, so we need to stop feeding them so they go the way of the whale oil industry.