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Montrose requests fluoride removal from water
Montrose Borough Council has submitted a proposal to PA American Water Company to eliminate fluoride from the town’s drinking water system. The move was approved at the November borough council meeting. According to the PAWC website, the company has a neutral position on the addition of fluoride to drinking water and – in systems where […]
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Many voices with one mission: Seeking a safer future for PES refinery site
Signs are held up as a standing room only crowd listens to testimony given by environmental experts, community activists and residents during a community meeting regarding the future of the site of Philadelphia Energy Solutions in August 2019. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY) South Philadelphia residents, labor leaders, health and environmental experts, planners and municipal […]
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Point Breeze residents protest refinery meeting, saying they’ve been left out of planning process
Shara Dae Howard/KYW Newsradio PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Residents in Point Breeze protested a meeting discussing Sunoco’s Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refinery clean up program Thursday evening, saying they’ve been left out of the process. Dozens of protestors shouting “We have a right to breath” blocked the doors of a meeting held by the city and […]
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CSB will focus on hydrofluoric acid in refining, Kulinowski says
Philadelphia — The Chemical Safety Board will begin “looking more closely” at hydrofluoric acid in the refining process, CSB interim Executive Authority Kristen Kulinowski said during an Oct. 16 news conference on a June 21 explosion and fire at a Philadelphia refinery. Announcing the release of a factual update and a new animation detailing the […]
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Shapiro, other attorneys general, oppose EPA proposal
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro and 12 other state attorneys general sent a letter Monday to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency urging it to scrap a proposed rollback of an accident prevention rule in light of the most recent revelation about the blast at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery earlier this year. The explosion released […]
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EDITORIAL: Philly refinery blast left behind a cloud of questions
No one ever wants to read the headline, “Hydrofluoric acid cloud kills thousands in Philadelphia refinery blast.” According to an investigation from the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) released last week, that headline came closer to reality than we should ever have to contemplate. The CSB reported that 5,000 pounds of lethal hydrofluoric acid was released […]
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Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery explosion hurled 38,000-pound piece of shrapnel across Schuylkill River
NBC10 Philadelphia/CBS.GOV A video still from NBC10 of the V-1 explosion that occurred at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery on June 21. The explosion that destroyed the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in June was so powerful it launched a 38,000-pound piece of equipment across the width of the Schuylkill River, according to a report released […]
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For South Philly residents, new report on refinery explosion prompts more health worries
The thick black smoke over her South Philadelphia neighborhood was enough to make Carol White feel as if she couldn’t breathe. She never had asthma or respiratory issues, but the June 21 explosion at the refinery near her home sent her to the emergency room. White, 60, said she still has chest pains, headaches and […]
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S. Philly refinery blast released 5,000 pounds of a deadly chemical [Hydrofluoric acid]
Philadelphia dodged several potential catastrophes during a dramatic June 21 refinery blast, which released about 5,239 pounds of a deadly chemical and launched pieces of shrapnel as large as a truck hurtling across the 1,300-acre refinery complex, according to federal findings released Wednesday. The disaster at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions complex began with the early […]
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Philly Fire Department personnel no longer at PES refinery site 24/7
Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refinery on August 8, 2019. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY) The site of a refinery explosion and fire that rocked South Philadelphia in June and led to the refinery’s shutdown is now under control. That means Philadelphia Fire Department personnel will no longer remain on site 24/7. Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel said Tuesday […]
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