The Biden administration cleared the way Wednesday for the resumption of sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline, lifting a security waiver on the company building the $11 billion pipeline.

Sanctions were halted in May last year, but Germany on Tuesday said it would halt the pipeline’s certification process in response to Russia’s decision to move troops into separatist-backed regions of Ukraine.

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