Source: Lisa Sorg, NC POLICY WATCH, 7/8/21


Colonial Pipeline has signed a consent agreement with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, which allows the company to avoid federal civil penalties in connection with a 1.2 million gallon gasoline spill in Huntersville —  the largest onshore fuel spill in the U.S. since 1997. According to the consent agreement, Colonial “neither admits nor denies any allegation or conclusion” laid out in the document.

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