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Five Years After Philadelphia Refinery’s Closure, Pollution Concerns Persist
“There is still an incredibly large amount of polluting industrial facilities in South and Southwest Philly,” Clean Air Council warns.
By Jon Hurdle
When the South Philadelphia refinery was permanently shuttered by a catastrophic explosion in 2019 after some 160 years in operation, many residents and environmentalists welcomed it as the long-overdue end of the city’s biggest single source of air pollution.