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150 Years of Spills: Philadelphia Refinery Cleanup Reveals Toxic Legacy of Fossil Fuels Wearing blue hard hats, white hazmat suits and respirator masks, workers carted away bags of debris on a recent morning from a sprawling and now-defunct oil refinery once operated by Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES). Other laborers ripped asbestos from the guts of an old boiler house, part of a massive demolition and redevelopment of the plant, which closed in 2019 after a series of explosions at the facility. Plans call for the nearly 1,400-acre site to be transformed into a new commercial hub with warehousing and offices. All it will take is a decade, hundreds of millions of dollars, and confronting 150 years’ worth of industrial pollution, including buried rail cars and a poisonous stew of waste fuels poured onto the ground. A U.S. refinery cleanup of this size and scope has no known precedent, remediation experts said. ....
150 years of spills: Philadelphia refinery cleanup highlights toxic legacy of fossil fuels Toggle share menu Advertisement 150 years of spills: Philadelphia refinery cleanup highlights toxic legacy of fossil fuels Wearing blue hard hats, white hazmat suits and respirator masks, workers carted away bags of debris on a recent morning from a sprawling and now-defunct oil refinery once operated by Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES). A view inside the PES Refinery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., November 2, 2020. REUTERS/Dane Rhys 8 related media assets (image or videos) available. Click to see the gallery. 16 Feb 2021 07:06PM (Updated: 17 Feb 2021 01:50AM) Share this content Bookmark PHILADELPHIA: Wearing blue hard hats, white hazmat suits and respirator masks, workers carted away bags of ....