- Ohio's environmental regulator says it has more than doubled the proposed fines against Energy Transfer Partners (ETP, ETE) to $2.3M for numerous water and air pollution violations during construction of the Rover natural gas pipeline..
- The director of Ohio's Environmental Protection Agency says ETP has resisted attempts to resolve the fines and will ask the state attorney general to intervene.
- The Ohio EPA director says ETP feels the state lacks authority to impose regulations because the U.S. FERC already has given its approval of the project.
- Separately, North Dakota regulators have approved a settlement of allegations that ETP violated state rules during construction of the Dakota Access pipeline; ETP must plant mores trees along the pipeline route and help develop and promote an industry manual for handling discoveries of American Indian artifacts.
- Now read: Energy Transfer Partners: 11% Yield With 15 Years Of Rising Dividends
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