Equitrans Natural Gas Leak Probed by Federal Investigators (2)

Federal regulators are investigating a major natural gas leak from an Equitrans Midstream Corp. gas storage facility in Pennsylvania that spewed more than 1 billion cubic feet of the climate-warming fuel into the atmosphere.

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration said it is probing the cause of the leak that persisted for 11 days at Equitrans’ Rager Mountain Storage facility in Jackson Township.

Federal investigators are seeking to determine what went wrong and whether to take any enforcement action, PHMSA said in a statement. The agency, part of the Department of Transportation, has authority to issue fines or ...