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. Neighbors in so-called fenceline communities around the sprawling 1,300-acre site three miles south of City Hall … Continue reading Five Years After Philadelphia Refinery’s Closure, Pollution Concerns Persist