A June 21 preliminary hearing is set in a Pennsylvania court related to 48 criminal charges filed last year against pipeline builder Energy Transfer for allegedly allowing thousands of gallons of drilling fluid to escape, on repeated occasions, during construction of the $2.5-billion Mariner East 2 natural gas liquids pipeline.
The hearing date was confirmed by a spokesperson for state Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who filed the charges last October, based on grand jury recommendations.