More polluted water sources identified in Pa.

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 Marie Cusick / StateImpact Pennsylvania

Mariner East 2 pipeline construction in Delaware County. The project spans multiple counties, including neighboring Chester and Berks.

‘This has ruined our lives.’

Marie Cusick / StateImpact Pennsylvania

Mariner East 2 pipeline construction in Delaware County. The project spans multiple counties, including neighboring Chester and Berks.

• A Berks County man is suing Sunoco because he claims he suffered health problems from ingesting water contaminated due to a well being punctured by the company as it built its Mariner East 2 pipeline. Jon Hurdle has the rundown on the lawsuit for StateImpact Pennsylvania.

• Meanwhile, more water contaminated by PFAS were discovered recently near Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, WHYY’s Mark Eichmann reports for State Impact Pennsylvania. The toxic chemicals have been found throughout Pennsylvania, too. WHYY has been all over the story — its explanatory podcast “The Why” focused on the issue in this episode that dropped last week.

• PFAS can get into food, too, as PublicSource reports in this story on agricultural impacts in other states. Pennsylvania’s task force dedicated to the contamination issue has yet to turn attention to potential effects on farming and the food supply.

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• About 11,000 Pennsylvanians get $200 in cash each month in lieu of other forms of public assistance to help them make ends meet — but that would stop under the budget approved recently by state lawmakers. Hoping to reverse the cuts, a couple nonprofits that advocate on behalf of the financially vulnerable are suing. Katie Meyer has the details on the lawsuit in this PA Post story.

• York’s 10,000 Acts of Kindness initiative is meant to help the city “move on from its divisive past,” Ed Mahon reports for WITF in this story about the 1969 race riots that claimed the lives of a young black woman and white police officer. Decades later, authorities charged Mayor Charlie Robertson — a cop when the riots happened — with murder in connection to the incident. The FBI recently made its file on Robertson (who died in 2017, nearly 15 years after his acquittal) public, the York Daily Record reports.

• A pride flag is now flying over Reading City Hall after a week of turmoil involving outgoing Mayor Wally Scott and the LGBTQ community. Jeremy Long of the Reading Eagle has this update.

• Don’t miss today’s N.Y. Times Food section for a story about Lancaster’s dining scene. It’s not so much a story about restaurants and chefs as it is a piece about how Lancaster’s growing population of refugees and immigrants is changing the city’s economy and, if you will, flavor.

• Writing in CivilEats, Gosia Wozniacka looks at Soil Generation, “a coalition of Black and brown gardeners, farmers, and organizations seeking to help people of color regain community control of land, while creating a culture shift within the food system.”