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Executive Summary: Reckoning with Fossil Fuel in Philadelphia

Author: Jared Farmer

This document summarizes key findings of the multi-year collaborative research project “Petrosylvania” that resulted in the website America’s First Petrochemical Corridor. It comprises six parts: 1) Executive Summary, 2) Interpretive Framework, 3) Major Takeaways, 4) Accident Statistics, 5) Remarkable Facts, and 6) Historical Chronology.


Pennsylvania Coal and Philadelphia

Authors: Gustave Lester, Jacob Wolff, and Jared Farmer


Petroleum Industry and Philadelphia

Author: Nolan Varee


Lower Schuylkill River

Author: Aislinn E. Pentecost-Farren


Philadelphia, PGW, and the Gas Works at Point Breeze

Authors: Angus McLeod IV and Jared Farmer


South Philadelphia Refinery Complex

Author: Claire Sasko


Fenceline Risk and Environmental Justice in South and Southwest Philadelphia

Creator: Jon Hurdle