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The EPA’s new rule reverses 50 years of practice regarding how states protect water supplies from large infrastructure projects.

Phragmites have invaded wetlands and pushed out native plants, but some say the hated reed could help in the battle against climate change.

The Delaware River Basin Commission has a de facto ban on fracking in place, but it is considering new rules that would include allowing the storage, treatment, and disposal of fracking waste, and the removal of water for fracking in other places.

The state’s actions include sampling urine, dust, and water from Bucks and Montgomery county residents whose blood was already tested. Some people at Monday’s meeting said Pennsylvania isn’t moving fast enough to deal with the family of toxic chemicals.