Infrastructure Bill Includes Provision to Study Job Loss Impact of Keystone XL Cancellation

Miles of unused pipe, prepared for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, sit in a lot outside Gascoyne, N.Dak., on Oct. 14, 2014. Andrew Burton/Getty Images

The newly unveiled 2,702-page bipartisan infrastructure bill includes a provision to study the job loss and impacts on consumer energy costs of President Joe Biden’s decision to revoke the Keystone XL pipeline project permit.

Section 40434 of the bipartisan package (pdf), which senators released on Sunday, calls on Jennifer Granholm, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, to study and report on the total number of jobs lost as a direct or indirect result of Biden’s executive order that axed the pipeline.