Lummis, Senate Republicans Introduce Bill to Expose Keystone Pipeline Job Loss

U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, along with 10 of her Senate Republican colleagues, recently introduced the Defending Keystone Jobs Act, which would require a Department of Labor report to Congress detailing the number of jobs lost as a result of the termination of the Keystone XL Pipeline Project. On June 9, Calgary Based TC Energy announced that they would officially be ending the project after Canadian officials failed to persuade President Biden to reverse his cancellation of the project’s permit after taking office.

Senator Lummis said over the past decade, the U.S.  has become a global leader in energy production while cutting our carbon emissions, and Wyoming has been at the forefront of that effort. Lummis said President Biden is eroding this success by attacking American energy independence at every turn and we should know the true cost of President Biden’s political move to halt construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

On his first day in office, President Biden issued an executive order revoking the construction permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. The project was expected to provide some 11,000 high-paying jobs directly, and up to 60,000 other jobs, while strengthening North American energy independence.