Honoring the Dedicated Employees of the Philadelphia Gas Works in Recognition of Natural Gas Utility Workers' Day on March 18, 2025.

Honoring the Dedicated Employees of the Philadelphia Gas Works in Recognition of Natural Gas Utility Workers’ Day on March 18, 2025. WHEREAS, The City Council of Philadelphia recognizes the employees of Philadelphia Gas Works for their dedicated and continuous 24/7, 365 service to Philadelphians as they seek to distribute safe, reliable, affordable, and sustainable natural gas service to our City on Natural Gas Utility Workers’ Day; and WHEREAS, The employees of Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW) have provided safe, reliable, and affordable natural gas distribution service to the residents of Philadelphia for nearly 200 years since the utility’s inception in 1836; and WHEREAS, The 1,600 current employees of PGW serve customers across Philadelphia with an emphasis on innovation and sustainability, acknowledging the urgency of clean and green solutions to alleviate climate change while balancing affordability and reliability for their customers; and WHEREAS, PGW field service employees, as essential workers, bravely serve Philadelphia daily by improving the safety and reliability of the City’s energy delivery system, detecting and responding to odor leaks (answering 31,000 odor-related calls), facilitating safe digging (answering 80,000 8-1-1 calls), and exposing themselves to potentially dangerous situations alongside other first responders, so that Philadelphians can safely heat their homes, cook food for their families, improve their properties, and operate their businesses; and W…