The Calgary-based pipeline operator called the move a “pause” while it considers the next steps for the controversial project, which TransCanada said it remained committed to completing. The company submitted an application with Nebraska’s Public Service Commission in October, but the bid for state approval was overtaken by a federal government decision against Keystone XL. “We believe it is inappropriate to ask the Commission to continue to move forward on a process that has legally set time lines, while we continue to consider our next course of action,” company spokesman Matt Cooper said in a statement. President Barack Obama rejected the pipeline on Nov. 6 some seven years after TransCanada requested federal permission for the project, which would link crude-oil producers in Western Canada to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Mr. Obama said the Keystone XL pipeline wasn’t in the national interest of the U.S. and would undermine […]