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EPA Rule Cuts Air Toxics From Passenger Vehicles, Gasoline
WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Friday finalized new standards for emissions of toxic fumes from mobile sources such as gasoline, passenger vehicles, and gas cans. The mobile source air toxics, MSAT, rule is intended to cut emissions of...
Tags: benzene, emission, gasoline, mobile, standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2007-02-12
EPA Would Cut Air Toxics from Gasoline, Vehicles, Containers
WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> Toxic fumes from gasoline, vehicles and portable gas containers would be reduced over the next 25 years under proposed new emissions standards announced late Wednesday by U.S. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson. The EPA's proposed Mobile Source Air Toxic MSAT regulations would lower emissions of...
Tags: benzene, emission, gasoline, standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2006-03-03
REFINERS MASTER TOUGH MACT II COMPLIANCE TESTS
Refiners recently met the deadline for completing compliance testing required by the Petroleum Refinery NESHAP [national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants], also known as Refinery MACT II. Refiners indicated that testing was challenging, more so than had been expected, but that test results revealed technology selections achieved compliance with...
Tags: benzene, compliance, emission, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2005-10-31
REPORT: TEXAS PLANTS GUSH EMISSIONS, ESCAPE FINES
Over the course of three days in January, the BASF-Atofina ethylene plant in Port Arthur, Texas, released more than 65 tons of hazardous volatile organic compounds VOCs into the atmosphere. That same month, the Premcor refinery nearby released 208 tons of sulfur dioxide (SO2); nearly 25 tons of VOCs and...
Tags: accident, benzene, emission, pollution, refinery, Texas, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2002-11-04
Emissions Figures Are High for Southeast Texas Refineries, Chemical Plants.
The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 18--PORT ARTHUR, Texas--Malfunctions in five refineries and chemical plants in south Jefferson County resulted in excessive emissions totaling more than 4.2 million pounds from January through September, a private environmental research group...
Tags: benzene, emission, refinery, Texas, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2002-10-18
Testing O'Hare's air pollution Regulators will see if planes' emissions really are excessive.(News)
Travelers returning to O'Hare International Airport after a long trip might notice a fine layer of soot on cars parked there. City officials maintain the soot is mostly from cars - not planes - but residents who live near the airport increasingly are starting to...
Tags: aircraft, benzene, car, Chicago, emission, Manufacturing, O'Hare, pollution, regulator, toxin, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2000-07-17
OHIO EPA: State takes action to reduce excessive em emissions from New Boston Coke Corporation.
M2 PRESSWIRE-3 December 1999-OHIO EPA: State takes action to reduce excessive emissions from New Boston Coke Corporation C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:021299 The State of Ohio today filed a lawsuit and secured a preliminary injunction against New Boston Coke Corporation. The...
Tags: benzene, emission, Ohio, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 1999-12-03
Government Guidelines
OPS Wants To Create Excavation Council The Office of Pipeline Safety OPS is trying to get various industry groups to buy into the idea of creating a new independent industry group which would be responsible for building national support for safe excavation practices. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater announced...
Tags: benzene, emission, Strategy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 1999-08-01
ENVIRONMENT CANADA: Government of Canada acts to further reduce air pollutants.
M2 PRESSWIRE-2 June 1999-ENVIRONMENT CANADA: Government of Canada acts to further reduce air pollutants C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:310599 OTTAWA -- Environment Minister Christine S. Stewart kicked off Environment Week 1999 today by announcing proposed new regulations to give Canadians cleaner...
Tags: benzene, emission, environment, gasoline, Government, Government of Canada, Regulations
Research articles 1999-06-02
Regulatory costs of mythic proportions.
Critiques of risk regulation rely pervasively on estimates of the costs Of various federal regulations per life saved. As Professor Heinzerling illustrates in this Article, most of these estimates derive from a single source, a table prepared in the 1980s by an economist at the Office of Management and Budget,...
Tags: agency, asbestos, benzene, Cir, Council, Econ, emission, Environmental, Federal Reserve Board, Hopkins, OSHA, regulation, Richard, Robert, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 1998-05-01
EPA limits industrial benzene emissions
EPA limits industrial benzene emissions For roughly 15 years, the Environmental Protection Agency has wrestled with how to regulate nonoccupational exposures to benzene, a human carcinogen and the sixteenth most widely used chemical by U.S. industries. Last week, EPA finally unveiled a sweeping control strategy to cut industrial...
Tags: benzene, emission, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 1989-09-09

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Proposed air emission limits for US oil refiners
The US Environmental Protection Agency EPA is proposing regulations to reduce significantly the emissions of benzene and other hazardous air pollutants HAPs from oil refineries. The proposal would cut emissions of HAPs by 59,400 tonnes (53,900 tonnThe US Environmental Protection Agency EPA is proposing regulations to...
Tags: refinery, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 1994-08-01
Simulation Software From Invensys Process Systems Helps Silver Eagle Refining to Meet EPA MSAT Benzene Emission Regulations
Invensys Process Systems, a leading provider of asset performance management solutions, and Silver Eagle Refining Inc., an independent Rocky Mountain area Independent Petroleum Refiner located in Woods Cross, Utah, have successfully applied simulation software in meeting upcoming Environmental Protection Agency EPA Mobile Source Air Toxics MSAT requirements for...
Tags: benzene, Invensys, software, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2008-03-17
Refiners may miss clean fuels deadline.(INDIA)
Some Indian refiners could fail to meet a 1 April deadline to provide fuels that meet Euro-III emission levels in major cities and Euro-II levels in the rest of the country. Local reports say that, other than at refineries in Mangalore, Chennai and North East India, oil...
Tags: Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.
Research articles 2005-01-01
After 4 years, India begins to import petrol, diesel.
Byline: Cuckoo Paul Feb. 11--NEW DELHI -- India has begun importing petrol and diesel after a hiatus of four years. The country has been in a surplus position on petroleum products. However, the new Euro III emission norms that come into effect...
Tags: Reliance Industries Ltd.
Research articles 2005-02-11
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