Podcasts about philadelphia energy solutions

Voters across Dauphin County and parts of Cumberland and York counties have new information about their 10th congressional district candidates. The positions were laid out by Democratic Party challenger Janelle Stelson and Republican Party incumbent Scott Perry. Control of the 50-member state Senate will likely come down to a handful of races this November More than five years after an explosion and massive fire at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in southwest Philly, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a $4.2 million settlement with the bankrupt former operator.  A York County judge has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges he directed employees at his law firm to fraudulently collect unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic and later tried to cover it up. With cleanup continuing from one hurricane and another on the way, the American Red Cross is looking to replenish its blood supply, and are offering an incentive.  Poll workers are on the front lines across Pennsylvania on election day -- from the time voting begins until well past the deadline for ballots to be cast. Their main responsibilities are to check-in voters and maintain a safe, secure and efficient polling place or precinct. As part of Election 2024 coverage centered around listening to Central Pennsylvanians, we gathered together a group of six poll workers and judges of elections to hear about their experiences.       Support WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining v. United States

Back in 2019, massive explosions shut down Philadelphia Energy Solutions, what had been the largest and oldest oil refinery on the East Coast. Now, there's plans to build a business hub for e-commerce and life sciences on this spot, creating as many as 19,000 jobs. But accessing this 1,300 acre plant can be difficult. Host Trenae Nuri speaks with Inga Saffron, architecture columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer, who says the developer and city officials need to connect it to the city if they want the hub to reach its full transformational potential. Read Inga's full story here.  Want some more Philly news? Then make sure to sign up for our morning newsletter Hey Philly. We're also on Twitter and Instagram! Follow us @citycastphilly. Have a question or just want to share some thoughts with the team? Leave us a voicemail or send us a text at 215-259-8170. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Rob and Molly are joined by previous podcast guest, Tim Murphy, to discuss the 2019 fire and explosions at Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES). In a previous role many years ago, Tim served as a process safety coordinator for the refinery, and although he was not employed there later when the incident occurred, he is able to provide additional context surrounding the incident due to this former role. In this episode, you'll learn a brief history of the facility, hear what happened on June 21, 2019 and why, and learn about the hazards associated with the refinery. You'll also hear the group's thoughts on a few of the US Chemical Safety board's findings, and the key lessons that other facilities in the process industry can take away from this incident. Find the CSB's final investigation report and video here. Listen to Episode 41 - Managing Process Safety from Afar with Guest Tim Murphy here. Find other episodes where we delve into CSB investigation reports by typing "incident breakdown" into the search bar on our website at www.amplifyconsultants.com/podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/amplifyyourprocesssafety/message

The ways that companies connect with their stakeholders has dramatically changed with the rise of digital and social media and a challenge to the concept of shareholder primacy. We speak with Sydney Isaacs and Dan Scorpio of Abernathy MacGregor on how companies can effectively reach their customers, vendors and employees during times of uncertainty such as a corporate restructuring.   With over 17 years at Abernathy, Sydney advises companies on transactions, crises and other times of transition, including restructuring. Dan, who joined Abernathy in 2015, is the head of M&A and activism.    Abernathy MacGregor is a strategic communications advisory firm that provides communications, stakeholder engagement and advocacy expertise to management teams and boards during mergers, social media crises, and distress. Abernathy has advised companies in chapter 11, including, among others, Alpha Media, Valaris, Parker Drilling, Brookstone, J. Crew Group, and Philadelphia Energy Solutions, and has also advised the City of Detroit in its Chapter 9 filing.    What We Discussed in This Episode: What a communication team does behind the scenes when a company files chapter 11 Whether to engage, or dodge, the press in corporate restructuring situations The likelihood of an information leak, and its impact on a distressed company's value How a company's management should message the company's situation to employees Best practices in managing customer and vendor communications   Contact Information: Sydney Isaacs  Dan Scorpio

On the Fenceline: A Fight for Clean Air follows Philly Thrive, a South Philadelphia activist organization, as they mobilize to shut down all operations of Philadelphia Energy Solutions oil refinery. The largest on the east coast of the United States. On the Fenceline just screened at the UN Global Climate Summit in November. In this episode, we bring you Part 2 of our conversation with filmmaker, Tara Eng. Tara is a former Working Films George F. Stoney Fellow and has produced and directed short documentaries about abusive trust in gymnastics ("The Lucky Ones") and urban sustainability in New York City ("Growing Justice"). Picture 2 Picture Productions is a team of journalists, photographers, researchers, and producers committed to illuminating pressing issues through documentary storytelling. Learn more at: www.picture2pictureproductions.com Listen wherever you podcast. Patrons of Lyons Den Productions will receive the complete conversation in the coming weeks. For more information go to www.patreon.com/lyonsdenproductions. [0:00] Choosing where to focus a documentary story [3:58] The demographics of activist groups: Gen X is MIA [10:09] Moving forward with the site after the explosion [15:37] A website as a companion piece and a way to contextualize a story, and plans for the film [20:49] Pandemic film release experience and what's next [26:46] Recognizing change back home after a Sunoco pipeline project and childhood memories [33:45] Inspirations for Unearth and importance of authenticity | Published on December 15, 2021 | Produced by Lyons Den Productions | Hosted by John C. Lyons | Music by Tony Grey | Support CINEMACTIVIST and Lyons Den Productions by becoming a Patron at www.patreon.com/lyonsdenproductions --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/cinemactivist/message

On the Fenceline: A Fight for Clean Air follows Philly Thrive, a South Philadelphia activist organization, as they mobilize to shut down all operations of Philadelphia Energy Solutions oil refinery. The largest on the east coast of the United States. In this episode, we bring you Part 1 of our conversation with filmmaker, Tara Eng. Tara is a former Working Films George F. Stoney Fellow and has produced and directed short documentaries about abusive trust in gymnastics ("The Lucky Ones") and urban sustainability in New York City ("Growing Justice"). Listen wherever you podcast. Patrons of Lyons Den Productions will receive the complete conversation in the coming weeks. For more information go to www.patreon.com/lyonsdenproductions. About Picture 2 Picture Productions: Picture 2 Picture Productions is a team of journalists, photographers, researchers, and producers committed to illuminating pressing issues through documentary storytelling. Our process holds space to reflect often on our identities and biases, and how they might shape our decision-making and filmmaking approach. As outsiders, we are conscious of the history of oppressive power between white folks and communities of color, and we continue to seek resources about non-extractive filmmaking practices and environmental racism that might inform our own approach. While two of our directors are from the Greater Philadelphia area, their experiences of growing up in their respective communities do not parallel growing up in South Philly. Our four directors do not know the lived experiences of being Black in South Philly. When we traveled to Philadelphia to film, we knew we were showing up to listen. Engaging with the community without cameras was imperative to listening and learning. We joined Philly Thrive and our documentary participants for various fundraisers, actions, and slices of pizza in the park to learn about the organization's history, goals, and membership so that we might understand the full scope of Thrive before constructing a story. During this time, we learned of our documentary participants' neighborhood communities, and their rich family roots in the South Philly area, which gave us a different understanding of the urgency and stakes of shutting the refinery down for good. We believe it is important to center the voices and experiences of people of color and fenceline residents. People of color and fenceline residents bear the brunt of refinery pollution, and as their voices have been swept over for years, our goal is to amplify their calls for justice and the stories they shared. Throughout the making of the film, we continue to consult the community and our documentary participants about the representations in our film in order to maintain transparency, authenticity, and dignity. Although our praxis is nowhere near perfect, we are committed to taking an active role in decolonizing documentary. We welcome and continue to seek learning opportunities about non-extractive filmmaking practices and issues of power. For additional information about non-extractive filmmaking: Story Shift – Working Films Collective Wisdom – MIT Open Documentary Lab | Published on May 12, 2021 | Produced by Lyons Den Productions | Hosted by John C. Lyons | Music by Tony Grey | Support CINEMACTIVIST and Lyons Den Productions by becoming a Patron at www.patreon.com/lyonsdenproductions --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/cinemactivist/message

Charlie Reeves grew up in public housing in South Philadelphia near the oldest and largest oil refinery on the East Coast, the Point Breeze Refinery, later owned by Sunoco and then Philadelphia Energy Solutions. Back in the 1970s, his father led public protests at City Hall and Sunoco headquarters over what he was convinced was toxic air pollution from the plant that was harming his family’s health. But authorities dismissed the protests and assured the neighborhood that everything was fine. Those reassurances didn’t ring true – especially when Charlie, his mother, and several neighbors were diagnosed with cancer, and Charlie’s mother died. But the neighborhood could not do anything to stop the refinery, because they had no evidence. Finally, the refinery closed on June 21, 2019, when a massive explosion and fire at the plant sent a fireball into the sky and rattled windows for miles around. To Charlie Reeves, the most devastating fact was what he learned six months later, when the Environmental Integrity Project, working with NBC National News, revealed that air pollution monitors ringing the refinery had registered benzene – a known carcinogen — at the plant’s fence lines at concentrations averaging more than five times the federal limit (EPA’s “action level” for benzene) for an entire year. That meant that local residents like the Reeves family could have been exposed to excessive cancer risks for a long time – including months after the explosion, and potentially months or years before the fire. Charlie is determined to use the new benzene air monitoring data collected by the Environmental Integrity Project to fight for environmental justice for his lower-income neighborhood. Southwest Philadelphia is one of 13 communities across the country that face potential cancer risks from excessive benzene air pollution detected at the fencelines of nearby oil refineries, according to EPA data produced for the first time in 2019 because of a lawsuit filed by the Environmental Integrity Project and allies to help protect communities in Texas and Louisiana.

It's been well over a year since the explosion at the former Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in South Philadelphia. Since then, the original owner declared bankruptcy and the site changed hands. So what's going to happen to it? Harris Steinberg, Executive Director of the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation at Drexel University joins KYW Newsradio In Depth to talk about the site and a really interesting vision for its reuse recently put out by the Lindy Institute. Check out the Vision for the Lower Schuylkill here: https://drexel.edu/lindyinstitute/initiatives/a-vision-for-the-lower-schuylkill/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Last June the largest oil refinery on the East Coast of the United States blew up. In the disaster’s wake, can the city of Philadelphia and its residents transition to a cleaner, more financially sound future? ---On June 21, 2019 the largest oil refinery on the East Coast exploded. The blast released thousands of pounds of toxic hydrogen fluoride gas into the surrounding Philadelphia air, and launched bus-sized debris across the neighboring Schuylkill River. Through sheer luck, the dissipating effect of winds on toxic gasses, and thanks to the clear headed emergency action of refinery operators, no one was seriously injured in the moments following the blast.Yet many in this city point out that the refinery leaves behind a legacy of health impacts, including elevated asthma rates in the densely populated neighborhoods that surround the site. The refinery also leaves a vast patch of urban landscape that is so toxic that it’s doubtful that it can ever be used for residential development.In the months following the explosion, the city, its residents, and business interests jockeyed over the site’s fate. Proposals were floated to repurpose the site as a logistics hub, return it to its natural state as a tidal marshland, and even to repair and reopen the damaged refinery itself. Yet, the decision on what to do with the site would ultimately be made within the walls of a Delaware bankruptcy court, where the priorities of the refinery’s creditors would take precedence.On January 22 the waiting came to an end. The court announced that a Chicago-based real-estate company had agreed to purchase the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery for $240 million dollars. The buyer has not yet announced a detailed vision for the site, but has a history of redeveloping industrial locations for less-polluting uses. Yet the auction’s losing bidders aren’t looking to go quietly, and there may be more drama to come.Dr. Mark Alan Hughes, director of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and former founding sustainability manager for the city of Philadelphia, talks about the sale of Philadelphia Energy Solutions and what the future may hold for the city of Philadelphia.Related ContentBeyond Bankruptcy: The Outlook for Philadelphia’s Neighborhood Refinery https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/paper/beyond-bankruptcyThis Energy Transition is Different. Here’s Why https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/blog/2019/12/05/energy-transition-different-heres-why

Today's topic is a news story from earlier this year regarding the fire and explosions and ultimate shuttering of the Philadelphia Energy Solutions oil refinery. The official word from the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board is that a corroded pipe fitting, found to be half the thickness of a credit card at its thinnest point, led to that incident. The concern is that the pipe, which was installed when Richard Nixon was president -- 1973 -- went all this time without being properly checked.

Patrick Clancy, President & CEO at Philadelphia Works joins the program to discuss how the workforce development board utilized rapid response resources to mitigate the impact on thousands of workers and their families who were affected by the closing of both Hahnemann University Hospital and Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) this past summer.   Patrick explains the services and resources that Philadelphia Works was able to offer through their network of partners and directs service providers to assist with transitioning, training, and job placement.

After a series of explosions, the largest oil refinery on the East Coast said they were shutting down. But then they declared bankruptcy and said they plan to reopen.

The Barrel Brothers are back! US Energy Information Administration petroleum analysts Jeff Barron and Mason Hamilton talk: the price impacts of the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery explosion and closure; the state of East Coast gasoline supply and demand; global oil demand; and surprises in...

In part 2 of our 2 part look at the Carlyle Group we explore the lives of the founders a bit further, particularly the active media presence of David Rubenstein. Moving beyond the war profiteering operations that we discussed in the previous ep we look at some of the domestic projects the Carlyle Group has taken on such as HCR Manorcare, Philadelphia Energy Solutions, and the Washington DC branch of the Democratic Socialists of America. Listen to Part 1 first if you haven't yet.

S&P Global Platts editors Sophie Byron and Wes Swift and Director of Global Biofuels Analysis Corey Lavinsky discuss the impact from the proposed settlement agreement between the US Environmental Protection Agency and Philadelphia Energy Solutions on the biofuels market.The trio review what...