On May 1, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed another legal challenge to Sable Offshore’s oil-pumping activities through its two onshore California pipelines.
Bonta’s motion for a preliminary injunction seeks to halt Sable’s restart of the pipelines, known as the Las Flores Pipelines, after the Trump administration greenlit the operation through an arguably dubious order and declaration of an equally dubious national energy emergency.
Sable’s federal bailout — namely, Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s “Pipeline Capacity Prioritization and Allocation Order” under the Defense Production Act — was unlawful, Bonta argues.