PFAS found in 72% of drinking water samples in Philly’s suburbs Frank Kummer, The Philadelphia Inquirer
PFAS “forever chemicals” have been detected in 33 of 46 public water locations in Philadelphia’s suburban counties, or 72% of samples, although none exceeded totals of federally suggested limits, according to an Inquirer analysis of new state data.
Statewide, however, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection found PFAS in only 35% of 114 sites tested in a broader sampling of 22 counties. Similarly, none of those exceeded the current EPA guideline of 70 parts per trillion, although some scientists contend there are no safe levels.
The Inquirer looked at results for Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery, Chester and Delaware counties. The data indicate most PFAS samples were found in Bucks and Montgomery, though that was expected because of past contamination from military bases, and that’s where the state focused most of its effort.
The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending March 5th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US fell by 52 billion cubic feet to 1,793 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 257 billion cubic feet, or 12.5% below the 2,050 billion cubic feet that were in storage on March 5th of last year, and 141 billion cubic feet, or 7.3% below the five-year average of 1,934 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 5th of March in recent years..the 52 billion cubic feet that were drawn out of US natural gas storage this week was less than the average forecast of a 65 billion cubic foot withdrawal from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts, and was also less than 72 billion cubic foot withdrawal from natural gas storage seen during the corresponding week of a year earlier, and less than the average withdrawal of 89 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been pulled out of nat
A huge win for clean water in Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania
Photo courtesy of the Sierra Club Pennsylvania Chapter.
The Delaware River Basin, a 13,539-square-mile watershed that cuts through Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania is now off-limits to fracking. In late February, the five-member Delaware River Basin Commission the interstate government agency that oversees the basin voted 4–0 to permanently ban the extraction of methane gas in the region. The decision comes a decade after the commission authorized a de facto moratorium on well construction and follows other fracking bans across the East Coast, marking a historic win for anti-fracking activists. The state commissioners the governors of each state all voted in favor of the ban. The federal commissioner abstained.
Environmental advocates have urged a Pennsylvania federal court to toss Republican state senators' challenge of a moratorium on fracking in the Delaware River Basin, arguing the suit was mooted when the Delaware River Basin Commission replaced the temporary ban with a permanent measure last month.
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