{"id":19137,"date":"2025-10-29T22:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19137\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T22:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:29:08","slug":"bills-proposed-in-response-to-deadly-gas-explosion-in-west-reading-pennsylvania-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19137\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills proposed in response to deadly gas explosion in West Reading | Pennsylvania News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two bills in the state House that came about after a tragic natural gas-fueled explosion in West Reading are closer to a vote.<\/p>\n<p>The bills came in response to the deadly blast at the RM Palmer candy factory in March of 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tnt-summary\">A small remembrance ceremony was held in West Reading Monday, marking two years since the tragic R.M. Palmer factory explosion.<\/p>\n<p>One bill would require owners of steam-pipes in public rights-of-way to register with the Pennsylvania One Call System.<\/p>\n<p>The other would require state regulators and natural gas pipeline operators to develop ways to address threats to degrading plastic pipelines.<\/p>\n<p>Committees approved the bills, which means the full House can take them up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two bills in the state House that came about after a tragic natural gas-fueled explosion in West Reading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13409,13404,13407,13401,13402,13408,28,13403,736,128,130,129,13406,13405],"class_list":{"0":"post-19137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-2023-03-00","9":"tag-brunner-mine-disaster","10":"tag-deadly-gas-explosion","11":"tag-explosion-protection","12":"tag-gas-explosion","13":"tag-natural-gas-pipeline-operators","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-process-safety","16":"tag-reading","17":"tag-reading-city","18":"tag-reading-city-headlines","19":"tag-reading-city-news","20":"tag-tragic-natural-gas-fueled-explosion","21":"tag-west-pharmaceutical-services-explosion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}