Trump Signs Permit for Oil Pipeline Echoing Keystone XL

US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a presidential permit authorizing the Bridger Pipeline expansion project meant to carry Canadian crude to Wyoming — the latest in years of back-and-forth over oil pipelines linking the countries.

The project is a quasi-revival of the canceled Keystone XL pipeline that would have transported Canadian oil sands crude to the US and drew widespread opposition from environmentalists. Former President Barack Obama rejected the project in 2015. Trump sought to revive it during his first term, and then former President Joe Biden withdrew a key permit for it in 2021.