PGW says its gas lines did not cause the Port Richmond explosion. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t gas

PGW says its gas lines did not cause the Port Richmond explosion. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t gas

By Sophia Schmidt and Susan Phillips, WHYY (Jan. 11, 2023)

“We do have lots of data when things are a reportable incident … on the operator side of the gas meter,” said Bill Caram, executive director of the nonprofit Pipeline Safety Trust. “But unfortunately, when it’s the other side of the gas meter, we don’t have data or statistics on that.”