Has the Honeymoon Already Ended Between Biden and Trade Unions over Keystone XL?
It didn’t take long. On his first day in office, President Biden revoked the federal permit granted by Donald Trump for the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that would bring 800,000 barrels per day of Canadian oil through Montana and South Dakota to link up with existing pipelines in Nebraska. No less than three trade unions expecting to provide some of the 10,000-plus jobs to build the pipeline (initial work was already employing 1,000) have expressed anger and betrayal over this move by the new president, whom they had strongly endorsed.
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A key committee of the Los Angeles City Council on Thursday backed a developer’s proposal for two high-rise residential towers on a block near City Hall that was formerly known as Times Mirror Square.
The city’s Planning and Land Use Management Committee voted 3-0 to recommend certification of the project’s environmental report and the denial of an appeal sought by a nonprofit organization whose members are also in a union group.
The committee’s approval sends the project to the City Council for a vote.
Developer Onni Group bought the former Los Angeles Times properties located between Spring Street and Broadway, and 1st and 2nd streets, in 2016. The Times moved its operations to El Segundo after Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong acquired the paper in 2018.