Keystone XL Dispute Ends Months After Project Cancellation

Environmental groups’ legal challenge to former President Donald Trump’s permit for the Keystone XL pipeline is finally over after TC Energy canceled the project and removed the pipeline, a Montana federal court ruled.

Indigenous Environmental Network and North Coast Rivers Alliance argued Trump’s presidential permit to build a cross-border segment of the pipeline violated the U.S. Constitution. President Joe Biden revoked the permit in January 2021, but the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana said the case wasn’t moot in May because there was still buried pipe that could be removed.

TC Energy sought approval from the Bureau ...