The US Department of Energy unlawfully directed Sable Offshore Corp. to defy state regulators and court orders to stop pumping oil, California said in a new court filing asking a judge to block the department’s emergency order.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright directed the company to violate the state’s property rights and a federal consent decree governing the restart of the Las Flores pipeline system in a Defense Production Act restart order, California said in a motion for a preliminary injunction filed in the US District Court for the Central District of California.
If the court grants California’s motion, this would ...