{"id":315921,"date":"2026-10-28T08:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T08:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315921\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T08:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T08:26:11","slug":"newly-signed-law-bans-pfas-in-firefighting-foam-across-pennsylvania-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315921\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly signed law bans PFAs in firefighting foam across Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DDStock_Firefighting2-e1791554442790-300x169.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-16700\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new law in Pennsylvania bans forever chemicals in the foam firefighters use, and grant money is available to help first responders through the transition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The law is a combination of two bills that were in the works this session, the other being Senate Bill 980. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stephanie Wein with PennEnvironment was advocating for the legislation. She says the bills were combined in a procedural move. The new law bans different toxins in both medical supplies and firefighting foam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bipartisan effort is aimed at protecting firefighters and drinking water across the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hanover Area Fire and Rescue switched over to a greener option for firefighting foam in 2022 due to an insurance company requirement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe foam creates a film over top of the burning liquid, that film disintegrates quicker now than the old foam did,\u201d Chief Tony Clousher said. \u201cSo we\u2019re using more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now all Pennsylvania fire companies will have to go through the transition.<\/p>\n<p>WHTM-TV ABC 27 Harrisburg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new law in Pennsylvania bans forever chemicals in the foam firefighters use, and grant money is available&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8338,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-315921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-mid-atlantic-region","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315921","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=315921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}