Jon Hurdle
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Sunoco's parent company admitted it made mistakes in building the Mariner East pipelines through Pennsylvania, and told investors that it will do better in future, but its assurances failed to persuade critics that the project will become any safer for the public or more protective of the environment.
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Pennsylvania will begin the process of setting its own health limits for two toxic PFAS chemicals because it's unclear when the federal government will set national standards, the Department of Environmental Protection said late Thursday.
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The U.S. EPA said Thursday it will this year begin the process of setting maximum contaminant limits for PFOA and PFOS, two toxic chemicals that are linked to cancer and other illnesses and are widespread in drinking water and soil.
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A raft of bills on pipeline safety may have a better chance of becoming law in Pennsylvania after Gov. Tom Wolf formally backed some of them in a statement that strongly criticized Sunoco's construction of the Mariner East pipelines.
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Chester County community meeting airs continuing public concerns on safety of Mariner East pipelines
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Pennsylvania lawmakers on Tuesday slammed the reported decision of the federal government not to regulate two chemicals that have been linked to cancer and other illnesses when present in drinking water.
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Joanne Stanton is watching Pennsylvania's fledgling efforts to curb toxic PFAS chemicals in drinking water, and wondering why PFAS-contaminated water is still being found below several communities in Bucks and Montgomery counties, several miles from the water's origin on a nearby military base.
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A worker on Sunoco's Mariner East project has threatened a Chester County opponent of the pipeline on social media in two posts that included an obscenity.
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A Pennsylvania court said the Department of Environmental Protection unlawfully issued air-quality permits to Sunoco for its natural gas liquids plant at Marcus Hook in Delaware County, and it ordered the department to re-do its analysis over whether the plant should be subject to two sets of emissions rules.
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New Jersey's attorney general says PennEast Pipeline Co. can't legally sue the state for access to more than 40 parcels of protected land, and argues that a federal judge was wrong to rule that the company could do so.