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The Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General Tuesday announced plans to investigate the EPA's response to the 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

The Allegheny Front's Julie Grant reports.

In February, 2023, 11 Norfolk Southern tanker cars carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine along the Ohio Pennsylvania border.

It led to the release of tons of industrial chemicals into the air and water.

They can't go back and correct the mistakes that they made at this point, but what they can do is make sure those mistakes never happen in another community.

According to the memo, the investigation may include interviews, data gathering, and analysis of air and water monitoring.

For the Allegheny Front, I'm Julie Grant.

You can read Julie's award-winning investigation into the response by public health agencies and our reporting on the questions surrounding EPA's actions at our website, AlleghenyFront.org. A Pittsburgh-area natural gas giant plans to buy a competitor to become the country's largest gas producer.

PFAS are chemicals that are extremely toxic, and a new law in Pennsylvania is restricting their use in firefighting foam, which is used to suppress fires.

From the Allegheny Front, Julie Grant says the new law is going into effect next July.

There are thousands of PFAS chemicals used in consumer products, but they don't break down in the environment or the human body and are linked to cancers.

The new Pennsylvania law restricts the manufacture, sale, and distribution of PFAS and firefighting foam starting in July 2027, with some exceptions like at airports.

A new law in Pennsylvania restricts the use of chemicals known as PFAS in firefighting foam, which is used to suppress fires.

Julie Grant with our friends at the Allegheny Front reports.

There are thousands of PFAS chemicals used in consumer products.

but they don't break down in the environment or the human body and are linked to cancers.

Wine says more than a dozen states have already passed similar laws, and Congress started phasing out the military use of PFAS and firefighting foam in 2020.

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Wine says firefighting foam with PFAS has contaminated groundwater near airports, military bases, and places where there have been fires.

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These wells can pollute the air and water, and plugging them can be time-consuming and expensive.

The Allegheny Front's Julie Grant met some Pittsburgh high school students who were stepping in to help.

When Lucy Horowitz was finishing her first year of high school, she was having anxiety about climate change and the state of the environment.

You just feel so helpless in the face of these really big problems.

And so for me, it's been a way to like kind of face that like psychological aspect and like to use doing physical actions that help the environment to also help my own and maybe hopefully others' mental health in the process.

Horowitz is thinking about studying psychology when she starts college next year.

For the Allegheny Front, I'm Julie Grant.

It's not just young people who are concerned about abandoned oil and gas wells.

Governor Shapiro last week joined 21 states suing the Environmental Protection Agency for its recent repeal of limits on climate-warming pollution from power plants.

The Allegheny Front's Julie Grant reports.

Last month, the EPA repealed Biden-era rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal and natural gas power plants.

In their appeal, EPA said the Trump administration was protecting American energy and would save the industry more than $300 billion.

They're not allowed to do that.

Still, Fox says it could take years for the lawsuit to be fully litigated.

For the Allegheny Front, I'm Julie Grant.

A new study shows that rates for black lung disease in Appalachia are surging, while the Trump administration is putting regulations that could reduce miners' exposure to the dust associated with the disease on ice.