{"id":312286,"date":"2026-10-22T23:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T23:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312286\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T23:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T23:22:13","slug":"pennsylvania-bill-to-phase-out-pfas-firefighting-foam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312286\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania bill to phase out PFAS firefighting foam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/9cc6591f-408c-4bd5-8acc-14e9ea41cf0f\" aria-label=\"Jere Gish profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792711333_872_9cc6591f-408c-4bd5-8acc-14e9ea41cf0f_1654041177.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Jere Gish\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Gov. Josh Shapiro signed a bill into law that will phase out the use of PFAS, also known as &#8220;forever chemicals,&#8221; in firefighting foam.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The law restricts the manufacture, sale, distribution, and use of firefighting foam containing PFAS starting in July 2027.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The bill includes an exemption for facilities where PFAS-based foam remains necessary for safety, such as airports, chemical plants, oil refineries, and sites handling flammable liquids or natural gas.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">PFAS exposure has been linked to cancer and other serious health problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2014 Gov. Josh Shapiro signed a bill into law that will phase out the use of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1817,43135,59396,127668,19189,127673,120677,10499,124002,127678,127670,41592,55808,127680,127666,127676,127667,742,127671,20374,127669,23745,28,33406,30,29,8425,127677,127679,127675,5376,127672,5691,20266,127674],"class_list":["post-312286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-airports","tag-cancer-risk","tag-chemical","tag-chemical-plants","tag-distribution","tag-distribution-ban","tag-exemption","tag-facility","tag-firefighting-foam","tag-flammable-liquid","tag-flammable-liquids","tag-foam","tag-forever-chemicals","tag-gov-shapiro-sign-bill","tag-governors-desk","tag-health-problems","tag-july-2027","tag-law","tag-manufacture-ban","tag-natural-gas","tag-oil-refineries","tag-pa-lawmakers","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-bill","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pfas","tag-pfas-exposure","tag-pfas-based-foam","tag-safety-exemption","tag-sale","tag-sale-restriction","tag-site","tag-use","tag-use-restriction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312286","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=312286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}