While neither factor is related, and agriculture is a tiny portion of the state’s gross state product, it demonstrates how truly large the deficit really is within the state budget (and the massive size of the state budget).
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has fined Sunoco Pipeline almost $2 million for pollution releases into Raystown Lake during the construction of the Mariner East pipeline.
Between April and December 2017, Sunoco spilled more than 200,000 gallons of drilling mud into the lake while building a section of the Mariner East pipeline beneath it.
Sunoco didn’t immediately report the spills, which it found had coated 8-acres of the lakebed.
The beauty salons, swimming pools and even wireless communications of today’s huge cruise ships all got their start with the “floating palaces” of a century ago.
Syracuse, N.Y. -- After a relatively dry and partly sunny week, Upstate New York could see another weekend snowstorm with wet, heavy snow and possibly rain.
A pair of low pressure systems are expected to move into the Northeast this weekend, one passing near New York City and the other near Cape Cod.