The Future: Toxic or Intoxicating?

Traces of panic on the streets of Philadelphia.

On my bike ride home from work I count no fewer than three people carrying cases of bottled water. Near Drexel’s campus I overhear a student who appears to be an undergrad saying she’s called four food delivery services before finally finding someone who could bring some precious H2O to her doorstep.

executive director David Masur and Natural Resources Defense Council senior director Kimberly Ong points out, a liquified natural gas terminal is slated to be built in Gibbstown, New Jersey, less than 15 miles downriver from Philadelphia. If the project is completed — and there is no reason to believe it won’t be — Philadelphia and its suburbs will have extremely dangerous, highly-explosive gas slithering on train