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Pipeline Operators Say High-Tech Tools Preclude Need for Expansive Safety Regulation

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Pipeline used to hold crude oil lays on the Superior terminal of Enbridge Vitality in Superior, Wis., on June 29, 2018. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says his administration will proceed to attraction a regulatory fee’s approval of Enbridge Vitality’s plan to switch its ageing Line 3 crude oil pipeline. The fee permitted the undertaking final summer season, however former Gov. Mark Dayton’s Division of Commerce appealed that call, as did a number of environmental and tribal teams. An appeals courtroom resolution final week despatched the challenges again to the fee for additional proceedings. AP Photograph/Jim Mone, File

The three.3 million-mile community of interstate pipelines pumping pure fuel, crude oil, gasoline, and different hazardous fuels throughout america has been working on auto-pilot for almost two years.

In 2023, Congress’ did not reauthorize the Defending Our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Security (PIPES) Act of 2020 as required each three years, that means for the final 20 months, the U.S. Division of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Supplies Security Administration (PHMSA) pipeline security program has been in limbo.
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