PennDOT has come up with another plan for the acid rock discovered during the i-99 construction project. They are
now planning on dumping the pyrite at a site a mere three miles away. Residents seem resigned to this fate and just want the road finished.

Of course, all of this could have been avoided had Rep. Bud Shuster not put a rider eliminating federal oversight into some unrelated legislation. Mike Joseph, the reporter who has done such an excellent job on the acid rock issue from the very beginning, blogged about the rider just the other day. Shuster’s unorthodox, if not unethical, maneuver has added at least $50 million to the cost of the road.