FILE – In this July 5, 2017, file photo, pipes for the Sunoco Mariner East pipeline are placed in South Lebanon Township, Pa. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018, it has ordered Sunoco to halt construction of the Mariner East 2 natural gas pipeline across the southern part of the state, citing a series of spills and other "egregious and willful violations" of state law.
FILE – In this July 5, 2017, file photo, pipes for the Sunoco Mariner East pipeline are placed in South Lebanon Township, Pa. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018, it has ordered Sunoco to halt construction of the Mariner East 2 natural gas pipeline across the southern part of the state, citing a series of spills and other "egregious and willful violations" of state law. Lebanon Daily News via AP, File Jeremy Long
FILE – In this July 5, 2017, file photo, pipes for the Sunoco Mariner East pipeline are placed in South Lebanon Township, Pa. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018, it has ordered Sunoco to halt construction of the Mariner East 2 natural gas pipeline across the southern part of the state, citing a series of spills and other "egregious and willful violations" of state law. Lebanon Daily News via AP, File Jeremy Long

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Pennsylvania shuts down construction on Sunoco gas pipeline

The Associated Press

January 03, 2018 11:32 AM

UPDATED 1 MINUTE AGO

HARRISBURG, Pa.

Pennsylvania environmental officials have ordered Sunoco to halt construction of a natural gas pipeline across the southern part of the state, citing a series of spills and other "egregious and willful violations" of state law.

The Department of Environmental Protection announced Wednesday that it has ordered work on the Mariner East 2 pipeline to stop until Sunoco complies with the terms of its permit. DEP has issued dozens of environmental violations to Sunoco since May.

The agency ordered Sunoco to come up with a plan to fix the problems that have plagued the $2.5 billion pipeline.

A Sunoco spokesman did not immediate respond to a request for comment.

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The planned pipeline will carry propane, butane and ethane from the Marcellus Shale natural gas formation to an export terminal near Philadelphia.

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