Mariner East fined again as another spill fouls state park
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Texas pipeline company that has been heavily penalized in Pennsylvania has been fined another $355,000 for polluting waterways in eight counties during construction of a pipeline to carry natural gas liquids. The Department of Environmental Protection said Thursday that a subsidiary of Energy Transfer LP discharged drilling wastewater into creeks, wetlands and tributaries in Berks, Blair, Cambria, Cumberland, Delaware, Lebanon, Washington and Westmoreland counties between August 2018 and April 2019. The announcement of the civil settlement came as Energy Transfer deals with yet another spill along its troubled Mariner East pipeline network, this time impacting a state park in Chester County.