{"id":259087,"date":"2026-08-04T18:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259087\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:10:08","slug":"pipeline-company-seeks-pause-in-pennsylvania-gas-leak-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259087\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipeline Company Seeks Pause in Pennsylvania Gas Leak Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An EQT Corp. affiliate is asking a federal court to prevent the Pennsylvania attorney general\u2019s office from moving forward with criminal charges over a gas leak while the company\u2019s lawsuit proceeds.<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary injunction is necessary because the charges would lead the company to suffer \u201cpotential criminal liability, economic hardship, a loss of business,\u201d and other irreparable harms, Equitrans LP said in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/document\/EQUITRANSLPvSUNDAYetalDocketNo226cv01620WDPaJul312026CourtDocket\/1?doc_id=X1T9QHHOMRL9PUP3F20VJBMV59A\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">motion<\/a> filed Monday with the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is irrefutable that a potential criminal conviction constitutes irreparable harm,\u201d the motion said.<\/p>\n<p>Equitrans <a data-terminal-id=\"TJ23Q6R24UAR\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/environment-and-energy\/pipeline-giant-challenges-pennsylvania-criminal-gas-leak-case\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sued<\/a> the Pennsylvania attorney general\u2019s office on July &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An EQT Corp. affiliate is asking a federal court to prevent the Pennsylvania attorney general\u2019s office from moving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[109974,37335,109973,109975,20374,28,30,29,109972,78424,41088],"class_list":["post-259087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-consent-decree","tag-corporate-income-tax","tag-grand-juries","tag-hazardous-materials-storage","tag-natural-gas","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pipelines","tag-preemption","tag-preliminary-injunctions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}