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BELLEVUE, Wash. — Paying bills usually stinks, but gas bills from a utility in Washington state will include something truly odorous this month: the stench of rotten eggs.
As part of a safety campaign, Puget Sound Energy is including a scratch-and-sniff pamphlet with its billing statements to remind customers of what leaking gas smells like.
Natural gas is odorless, but providers add a chemical to the gas that has a distinctive, sulfurlike aroma similar to rotten eggs so leaks can be detected. Bellevue, Wash.-based PSE serves nearly 750,000 natural- gas customers in 11 counties.
