The request comes a few weeks after the state shut down another pipeline project due to repeated permit violations, including more than 60 spills along its route.
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Activity in Pennsylvania’s gas fields slowed in recent years amid low prices, but this year is going to be different, in part, because of a pipeline boom.
The settlement, filed in Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, pertains to 10 coal-fired power plants around the state that have been operating on expired water pollution permits for years — in one case for 17 years.