The Hill is reporting that six green groups have sued the Trump administration for approving permits to build the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada down through Texas.
In a lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court in Montana, the groups contend Trump’s State Department used out-of-date environmental information to approve the pipeline.
When Trump issued a presidential permit last week allowing Keystone to cross the U.S.-Canada border, opponents said the project needed to go through a new environmental review before it could actually move forward.
And while it wasn’t a surprise that this administration, or any Republican administration for that matter, would approve this amoral exercise in big business rights over citizens’ rights, the fact that they can only point to creating a whopping 35 permanent jobs from this construction makes this event that much more pathetic.