Sunoco Can't Hide Pipeline Rupture Assessment, Feds Say
By Clark Mindock, Law360, Sept. 27, 2021
Sunoco Pipeline LP's concerns that releasing risk modeling data for its Mariner East 2 pipeline that bisects Pennsylvania would provide a road map for criminals and terrorists are unfounded because the information is too general to cause alarm, the government told a D. C. federal court Friday. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration said the contested data only provides generalized information about those potential risks described by Sunoco. It asked the court to toss the challenge to the government's decision to release the data after receiving several Freedom of Information Act requests.
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