From the Newsroom: Bucks County Courier Times Podcast

A podcast running down the recent environmental news headline for Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Burlington County, New Jersey. Hosted by Kyle Bagenstose, an award-winning environmental journalist for the Bucks County Courier Times, Intelligencer, and Burlington County Times newspapers, this podcast will keep you in the know on the latest happenings in the Delaware Valley. This episode features an interview between Bagenstose and Peter Grevatt, head of the EPA's office of drinking water. The interview came in the midst of a recent visit by the EPA to Horsham, where the agency held a day-long meeting and listening session about PFAS, chemicals that have contaminated local drinking water supplies. Bagenstose asks Grevatt about what goes into the decision to set a maximum contaminant limit (MCL), for the chemicals in drinking water, and who ultimately makes the decision. Also discussed is the latest news on high lead levels being found in the tap water of some Bordentown homes, and the Elcon hazardous waste treatment facility proposal gaining some steam in Falls.

On the latest episode of Naturally Speaking, award-winning environmental journalist Kyle Bagenstose follows up on recent stories about poor air quality in Lower Bucks County, chemical drinking water contamination outside Perkasie, and previews an upcoming EPA visit to the site of water contamination in Warminster, Warrington, and Horsham.

This episode features an interview with Steve Bacher, a Lower Makefield resident who ran in the Democratic primary for Bucks County's first congressional district. Bacher lost that race to Scott Wallace last month, but reflects on the campaign and his effort to get more attention on environmental issues during  campaign season. Also discussed is recent reporting on lead in Bordentown drinking water, the return of a proposal to build the Elcon hazardous waste treatment facility along the Delaware River, and updates on PFAS drinking water contamination along the Bucks and Montgomery county line.

A podcast running down the recent environmental news headlines for Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Burlington County, New Jersey. Hosted by Kyle Bagenstose, an award-winning environmental journalist for the Bucks County Courier Times, Intelligencer and Burlington County Times newspapers, this podcast will keep you in the know on the latest happenings in the Delaware Valley.In this episode, the podcast's second, Bagenstose fights off the spring sniffles to run down five recent environmental stories in Pennsylvania. He recaps this week's major investigative report on a forgotten Levittown landfill, and then shares clips and insights from a recent interview with Pennsylvania DEP secretary Patrick McDonnell. Also discussed is the latest about drinking water contamination in the region, an environmental forum for 1st Congressional District candidates, and the latest on the controversial reopening of the Rockhill Quarry.

In this inaugural episode, Kyle Bagenstose takes a deep dive on the latest environmental news in Bucks and Burlington counties. He discusses a pair of local environmental activists who were recently honored as "women of the watershed." Kyle also covers recent news items about poor air quality in Bucks County, a US Steel plant in Lower Bucks County being identified as a top water polluter in Pennsylvania, and the changing attitudes of Pennsylvanians on climate change and fracking.