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		<title><![CDATA[Refiner to Pay $2.2 Million for Environmental Violations]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5554/is_200703/ai_n21894120]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORSContact: U.S. Department of Justice Environmental and Natural Resources Division, +1-202-514-2007; or U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, +1-202-564-4355, TDD: +1-202-514-1888 WASHINGTON, March 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Williams Refining Co., the former owner and operator of a Memphis, Tenn., petroleum refinery, has agreed to pay $2.2 million in civil penalties to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6656/is_21_15/ai_n29330692]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Environment: The Environmental Protection Agency EPA announced regulations last week that will lower airborne pollutants over the next 25 years. Most significantly for oil refineries, the rules require that benzene levels be cut. On average, benzene made up roughly 1% of US gas in 2004. This proportion will be brought...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[REPORT: TEXAS PLANTS GUSH EMISSIONS, ESCAPE FINES]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2002 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Emissions Figures Are High for Southeast Texas Refineries, Chemical Plants.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2002 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Petrochemical Firm Guilty of Hiding Pollution Violations at Texas Oil Refinery.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Pinkerton, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune  Business News    Apr. 10--CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas--A subsidiary of the petrochemical  giant  Koch Industries Inc. was convicted Monday of concealing  environmental  violations at its oil refinery here and assessed the most  expensive criminal  pollution...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2001 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kansas Oil Company Executives to Testify at Corpus Christi, Texas, Trial.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oct. 6--Koch Industries and four of its senior employees are  scheduled to appear today in federal court in Corpus Christi, Texas.    They are charged with deliberately violating air pollution laws and  conspiring to lie about problems at a Texas refinery.    Koch calls...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2000 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Texas Grand Jury Indicts Wichita, Kan.-Based Petroleum Firm.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sep. 29--WASHINGTON--A federal grand jury in Texas returned a  97-count indictment Thursday against Koch Industries, its petroleum  subsidiary and four employees, charging that they violated federal  environmental laws at a Corpus Christi refinery and made false  statements to regulators.    Justice Department officials described...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2000 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EPA: Operators of Vicksburg refinery indicted for violating environmental laws.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5243/is_199809/ai_n19803360]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[M2 PRESSWIRE-7 September 1998-EPA: Operators of Vicksburg refinery  indicted for violating environmental laws C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS  LTD    RDATE:040998    M&S Petroleum Inc., which formerly operated the Barrett  Refinery in Vicksburg, Miss., and three of its officers were charged on  Aug. 27,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 1998 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BP Benzene Recovery Unit Is Set for Startup.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[CONSTRUCTION WORK is scheduled to start at BP Oil UK Ltd.'s  benzene recovery project at the company's Grangemouth, Scotland,  refinery in October of this year, aiming for an on stream date at the  end of the second quarter 1999.     The project is expe...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reilly Tar and Chemical site clean-up:]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5974/is_199504/ai_n24139481]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Environmental Protection Agency EPA and Reilly Industries Inc.  have signed a clean-up agreement for the 121-acre (49 ha) Reilly Tar and  Chemical Superfund site in Indiana. The firm operated a coal tar  refinery and creosote wood treatment plant at the site from 1921-72. It  still...]]></description>
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