California sues Trump energy department over revival of controversial oil pipeline

Attorney general decries ‘outrageous federal overreach’ after government restarted pipeline closed over 2015 spill

California 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.

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.