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Nick DeRose, a managing principal at Langan, a prominent environmental engineering, science and consulting firm, is our guest. He tells us about 'emerging contaminants' which is the term used for a number of chemical compounds that are appearing in an alarming number of locations including public drinking water supplies. They are believed to be toxic at very low levels and pose significant regulatory and technical challenges for governments, manufacturers and remediation firms that are charged with cleaning them up.

A one-day course at Montclair State University on June 8 will explore the topic in detail. Enviro-Events Calendar has the registration and info link

This is the second of two episodes in which we interview two investigative reporters who are part of a team assembled by the Bucks County Courier Times and The Burlington County Times to explore potential health risks from groundwater containing toxic chemicals PFOS and PFOA that has spread to private drinking wells outside the bases in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. This episode focuses on the potential impact of the contamination on property owners with drinking water wells near the Fort Dix, McGuire and Lakehurst bases.  EnviroPolitics Podcast is a companion to the daily, paid-subscription newsletter, 'EnviroPolitics', and its free, 'EnviroPolitics Blog'. The podcast provides news, commentary and interviews on energy and environment issues and the politics that drives them.

This is the first of two episodes in which we interview two investigative reporters who are part of a team assembled by the Bucks County Courier Times and The Burlington County Times to explore potential health risks from groundwater containing toxic chemicals PFOS and PFOA that has spread to private drinking wells outside the bases in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Just a few of the dozens of great energy and environment stories that appeared last week in our daily EnviroPolitics digital newsletter.

• A Pa mine fire that's been burning for decades. Yes, decades
• An important federal approval for gas pipeline that's opposed in Pa and NJ
• A big, expensive cleanup of a NJ lake polluted by a DuPont munitions plant
• An effort to bring back the Bobwhite quail
• Ozone pollution in Delaware
• Gas and chemical industries joining with seniors to fight nuclear bailout 

...and more

A sampling of some of the top environment, energy and political stories of the past week in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware that appeared in the daily newsletter, EnviroPolitics.

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In this episode, we take a look back at some of the dozens of energy, environment and political stories that appeared last week in our daily newsletter, EnviroPolitics

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Journalist Jon Hurdle explains how a fire-fighting material formerly used at the Army's Fort Dix in New Jersey has polluted groundwater at the base and has poses a potential impact for private wells and public drinking water downstream. 

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A sample of some of the the top political, energy and environment stories of the past week in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and beyond, as reported in EnviroPolitics and EnviroPolitics Blog.

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