A new legal battle is on the U.S. energy horizon as part of an attempt to challenge and foil the allegedly outdated plans for three aging oil platforms off the coast of California. This lawsuit accuses the Trump administration of ignoring the harms such plans will bring and aims to thwart Sable Offshore, a Texas-based oil company, from bringing back into operation a pipeline that will transport hydrocarbons produced at three offshore platforms linked to it.

Sable Offshore, the pipeline’s new owner, is attempting to restart production at the Santa Ynez unit ’s three platforms, where production has been shut down since May 2015, when a corroded onshore pipeline ruptured and released what is believed to be about 450,000 gallons (1,703.44 cubic meters) of oil near Refugio State Beach north of Santa Barbara.