President Donald Trump has granted a key approval to a major new pipeline that would move oil from Canada into the central U.S.<\/p>\n
The three-foot-wide Bridger Pipeline Expansion would carry up to 550,000 barrels of oil a day from the Canadian border with Montana down through eastern Montana and Wyoming, where it would link up with another pipeline.<\/p>\n
More state and federal approvals are needed before Casper, Wyoming-based Bridger Pipeline begins construction. Company officials expect to start next year.<\/p>\n
At peak volume, the 650-mile pipeline would move two-thirds as much oil as the better-known Keystone XL pipeline that got partially built before President Joe Biden, citing climate change, canceled its permit on the day he took office in 2021.<\/p>\n
FEMA bringing back to employees<\/p>\n
An attorney representing the Trump administration informed a U.S. District Court that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has begun offering new appointments to disaster workers whose contracts the agency did not renew in January, reversing a controversial decision that prompted a coalition of labor unions, scientific groups and local governments to sue the administration.<\/p>\n
FEMA has \u201cinitiated contact to offer new appointments\u201d to term-limited staff whose contracts expired the first three weeks of January, U.S. Attorney Craig H. Missakian wrote in a notice submitted to the U.S. District Court in San Francisco Friday.<\/p>\n
The notice comes after months of uncertainty over the future of FEMA\u2019s term-limited disaster workers, who make up roughly half the agency\u2019s workforce.<\/p>\n
FEMA did not immediately respond to questions about the court notice or how many employees received offers to return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump has granted a key approval to a major new pipeline that would move oil from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[525,17,162,14074,13066,6795,116,1209,14075],"class_list":{"0":"post-30557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-fema","12":"tag-keystone-xl-pipeline","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-oil-prices","16":"tag-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}