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Good morning! The fossil fuel industry should be publicly owned and scaled down as quick as humanly possible
FYI these are the kinds of things a refinery explosion like the one that happened in Philly early this morning can put into the air. By design, these sorts of facilities tend to be built in working class communities of color thedailybeast.com/big-oil-says-y…
"The refinery is the largest singnle source of pollution in the Philadelphia area even when there isn't an emergency." nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Mas…
"will acid dissolve my bones" is not a thought anyone should have to have so that a few extremely wealthy people can keep making outrageous amounts of money
The company that owns the exploded refinery in Philly, Energy Solutions, is part of a partnership with Sunoco. Who owns that partnership? Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline. You cannot make this shit up
There was a fire at the same PES refinery last week, and community groups held a protest asking for answers a few days ago:
And here's what Energy Transfer Partners is up to elsewhere:
