Keystone Pipeline Won’t Have to Use U.S. Steel Despite Trump Pledge

President said last week that Keystone must use American steel ‘or we’re not building one’

By Kris Maher , Ted Mann and Christopher M. Matthews

Updated March 4, 2017 7:43 pm ET

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A Trump administration official said an executive order approving two pipeline projects and mandating the use of American-made steel won’t apply to the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, despite prior statements by President Donald Trump that it would.

Days after taking office in January, Mr. Trump signed an executive order to speed approval of two pipeline projects that had been blocked by the Obama administration, the Keystone XL and the Dakota Access Pipeline. On several occasions since then, President Trump...

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