Sunoco failed to disclose full risks of Mariner East pipeline and was ‘negligent’ in response to concerns, judge rules
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Rebecca Britton, a school board director for the Downingtown Area School District and founder of the Uwchlan Safety Coalition, was one of several residents who contended that Sunoco, the operator of the Mariner East pipeline system, had failed to properly inform nearby residents and emergency responders of all of the risks should an accident occur. (MICHAEL BRYANT / Philadelphia Inquirer)
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By Rebecca Moss of Spotlight PA
HARRISBURG In 2018, the superintendent of a Chester County school district wrote to Gov. Tom Wolf, beseeching him to conduct a risk analysis of a pipeline system called Mariner East, running volatile, natural gas liquids roughly 500 feet from some of her schools. The district, she said, did not know how to safely evacuate its 3,400 students should an accident occur.
Sunoco failed to disclose some risks of Mariner East pipeline, was negligent in response to concerns, judge rules
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by Christen Smith, The Center Square | April 23, 2021 08:30 AM Print this article
Republican senators issued Gov. Tom Wolf an ultimatum on Thursday in yet another effort to derail the state’s entry into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
In a letter to Wolf signed by 27 members of the Senate Republican Caucus and Sen. John Yudichak, I-Luzurne, the lawmakers said they would not confirm his nominee for the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission until he withdraws an executive order committing the state to join RGGI next year.
“We have made it clear over the past 19 months that this is about the balance of powers in Pennsylvania,” said Sen. Joe Pittman, R-Indiana, who likened RGGI to a carbon tax on power producers. “It is dangerous precedent to tolerate the governor unilaterally imposing a tax. This moratorium on confirmation of PUC nominees is a reminder to the governor that Pennsylvania has three distinct and co-equal branches