A nationwide real estate development and investment firm with more than 150 properties in 28 states is the third company to express interest in buying the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery site in South Philadelphia.
Hydrofluoric acid is ‘special’ and ‘very dangerous’ — and there are 33,000 gallons of it at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery that need to be neutralized. It will require a lot of careful work.
Workers at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in South Philadelphia began neutralizing tens of thousands of barrels of a highly toxic chemical. The refinery is shutting down after an explosion and fire destroyed part of the plant.
Helene Langlamet: We must demand responsible cleanup at the PES refinery