We Are The People Inc.

07/04/2026

250 years later, it’s our turn to protect our freedom and stand against tyranny

In Search of America The Right To Know Tour ©️Copyright 2020 Josep...

06/23/2026

My town

01/19/2026

We’ve maintained restraint throughout this challenging period, but contemplating potential conflict with our NATO allies is where we draw the line. How much latitude will we permit before we collectively assert that it has gone far enough?

01/03/2026

Herb Denenberg conducts interviews with President Jimmy Carter, Ralph Nader, and Joseph Lee Ho**er in the early 1980s.

Toxic Time Bomb was an investigative environmental documentary by Herb Denenberg which aired @ NBC 10 around 1980 in Philadelphia,Pa This 5 minute audio is ...

12/29/2025

I am pleased to see that the efforts made by We Are The People Inc. and myself in the mid-1970s and 1980s have not been in vain. Assistance is finally forthcoming for Chichester, Pennsylvania, encompassing Upper Chichester, Lower Chichester, Trainer, and Marcus Hook.
Please give your full support to
Clean Air Council and Del-Chesco United for Pipeline Safety
Thank you
Joseph Lee Ho**er President
We Are The People Inc.

Clean Air Council and Partners Release Community Environmental Health Study Key Findings On Tuesday evening, July 30th, over 60 residents and key stakeholders gathered in-person at the Keystone First Wellness and Opportunity Center in Chester, with another 30 residents and key stakeholders joining v...

12/29/2025

The Sun Oil Company’s Read-Boyd Farm site, a 72-acre property located in Upper Chichester, Pennsylvania, was utilized as a chemical dumping ground, with the company allowing unknown chemicals to be disposed of in large ponds over the course of five decades without maintaining any records of the substances involved. In approximately 1980, Joseph Lee Ho**er and his environmental organization, We Are The People Inc.., collaborated with the Delaware County Daily Times and other local news outlets to expose the toxic waste site. The Marcus Hook Creek, which flowed through the property, became polluted, and local residents' wells, still in use at the time, were also contaminated. Following media coverage, the company erected a fence around the property but did not undertake any further cleanup efforts. In 1986, Ho**er documented the site's condition through aerial photography, revealing the state of the chemical ponds. Nearly four decades later, another environmental group discovered alarming evidence suggesting that the ponds were being filled with landfill materials. Despite an environmental study estimating the cleanup cost at $40 million in 1972, Sun Company declined to take responsibility. The United States Environmental Protection Agency has classified the site as a Superfund site, with archived status, indicating no ongoing work. Notably, plans have been reported for Sunoco Logistics to utilize the property for pipeline transfer. Given the circumstances, would you agree that environmental agencies and Sun Oil Company have some explaining to do?

12/28/2025

What are the Residents of Chichester, Pennsylvania going to do about this?

12/28/2025

In 1986 Joseph Lee Ho**er captured these aerial photos of Sun Oil Company’s abandoned Toxic Chemical dump site located in Upper Chichester,Pa USA

Look at the aerial photos taken in spring 1986 by J.L. Ho**er and photos from 2019 by Del-Chesco United to see that the pits are being filled in disregarding public health and well-being.

Del-Chesco United for Pipeline Safety 2019 photos of Read-Boyd
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We Are The People Inc.
1988 aerial photos of Read Boyd
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This is a Sunoco-contaminated site sometimes referred to as "Read Boyd Farm." The site is at the southeast corner of the intersection of I-95 and Market Street (SR 452) in Upper Chichester Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. According to a source inside Delaware County government, this is a site that "Marcus Hook Industrial Complex [Sunoco's former refinery, now being converted to an export terminal] has been remediating for acid dumping back in the day."

During the week of October 25, 2019 strong petroleum-like odors were reported across Delaware County, including in the immediate vicinity of the Read Boyd Farm site. It's unconfirmed whether some or all of these fumes originated from there--Delaware County has not ruled it in or out, as far as Del-Chesco United knows--but the site has released toxic or noxious fumes in the past. From the August 2015 minutes of Upper Chichester Township:

"Mr. McMullan [the township manager] commented on Read Boyd Farm and noted the an environmental impact created by Sunoco Logistics. A accidental v***r cloud was created by a subcontractor of of Sunoco Logistics from incorrectly adding to much chemical to a pit at the location. The v***r impacted residents in Lower Chichester. The Township, along with members from Lower Chichester and Sunoco Logistics met to discuss the incident, as well as grading work to be completed at the site. Mr. McMullan will forward information about future work at the site to [township engineer] Mr. Viscuso."

Sunoco Logistics has a long history of threatening public health and safety with negligent practices like the one above, and it is imperative that they are held accountable.