Construction of the $2.5-billion Mariner East 2 pipeline in southeast Pennsylvania, originally allowed to proceed despite the statewide shutdown of non-essential work by Gov. Tom Wolf (D) to combat the COVID-19 spread, will now halt.
Initially considered exempt from thee March 19 directive as a “life-sustaining activity” by the Pennsylvania Utilities Commission (PUC), installation of new segments of natural gas pipeline continued into the next day, when the governor’s office clarified the project’s status as non-essential.