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WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-2) issued the statement below, following today’s announcement by the Biden administration setting the first ever national EPA standard to limit PFAS & PFOA for drinking water. PFAS & PFOA “forever chemicals” are an urgent public health threat. PFAS are persistent, bio accumulative, and toxic. Increasingly, communities across the country continue discovering PFAS & PFOA contamination in their air, land, and water.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Pennsylvania Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02), Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, released a statement on President Biden’s State of the Union address:
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02) released the statement below following the EPA announcement of a new framework to prevent unsafe PFAS from entering the market:
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02) announced that Pennsylvania will receive $264,847,619 in funding under the historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to provide Pennsylvanians with more transportation options, ease congestion in local communities and reduce carbon pollution across the state.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02), praised today's House passage of the historic $1.7 trillion Build Back Better Act, which will meet the urgent needs of individuals and families across the nation and in Pennsylvania by creating jobs, cutting taxes, and lowering costs.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02), today praised the Biden Administration's decision to set enforceable drinking water limits on PFAS chemicals which have turned up in the water supplies of communities around the country.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Brendan F. Boyle released the following statement after the passage this evening of his amendment requiring the Secretary of Defense to review agreements between local fire departments and the Department of Defense (DOD) with respect to spills of hazardous firefighting foams:
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Brendan F. Boyle's (PA-02) Innovative Energy Manufacturing Act (H.R. 507) a bill that will revive the Advanced Manufacturing Tax Credit (Section 48C)—a program that invests in U.S. manufacturing capacity to supply clean energy projects with American-made equipment, was included in the reconciliation package that passed out of the Ways and Means Committee markup today.
PHILADELPHIA - In response to the impact of this week's severe weather on our region, all three members of Philadelphia's U.S. House Congressional Delegation, Representatives Brendan Boyle (PA-02), Dwight Evans (PA-01) and Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05), jointly called upon Governor Wolf to request federal support in the form of a major disaster declaration, and, that the Governor utilize any and all state and federal disaster relief support at his disposal:
In the letter, the three House members explain how the severe weather has impacted the City of Philadelphia:
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-02) is proud to announce that his legislation, the Protect Drinking Water from PFAS Act of 2021, was included in a package of bills that successfully passed the House of Representatives today. The package, titled the PFAS Action Act of 2021 (H.R. 2467), is comprehensive legislation to regulate PFAS chemicals, clean up contamination, and protect public health. PFAS chemicals are an urgent public health threat.