Phillips 66 Los Angeles refinery redevelopment unknown amid environmental, economic concerns

Phillips 66 Los Angeles refinery redevelopment unknown amid environmental, economic concerns

For more than a century, the Phillips 66 Los Angeles refinery, in Wilmington and Carson, has symbolized the legacy of the region’s oil industry – which, in many ways, built Southern California. The industrial behemoth, however, now represents something else: the slow, but constant, decline of that once resolute legacy. By year’s end, Phillips 66 will shutter the refinery. The facility — which is among a cluster of South Bay refineries, including…