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California sues Trump energy department over revival of controversial oil pipeline

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Rob Bonta, the California attorney general, last year. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, said he has sued the US energy department to stop it from using a cold-war-era law to restart the long-disputed Sable Offshore pipeline system linking the Santa Ynez offshore platform to California refineries.

The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, earlier this month restarted the pipelines using powers granted to him by Donald Trump through an executive order that invoked the Defense Production Act to supersede state laws.

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