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- EPA Considering Benzene Alkylation as Allowable Benzene Control Technology
- The U.S. EPA is considering adding benzene alkylation to a list of benzene control technologies that refiners can employ to generate early benzene credits. The U.S. EPA is considering adding benzene alkylation to a list of benzene control technologies that refiners can employ to generate early benzene credits.
- Research articles 2008-03-24
- Refiner to Pay $2.2 Million for Environmental Violations
- 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...
- Research articles 2007-03-13
- Environment
- 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...
- Research articles 2007-02-15
- 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...
- Research articles 2007-02-12
- New EPA rules target toxic car emissions
- WASHINGTON -- Toxic fumes from cars and gasoline would be cut significantly under new limits on cancer-causing benzene, adopted by the Bush administration under legal pressure from environmental groups. The requirements, to take effect between 2009 and 2011, would reduce toxic emissions of benzene and other pollutants...
- Research articles 2007-02-10
- New EPA rules target toxic car emissions
- WASHINGTON -- Toxic fumes from cars and gasoline would be cut significantly under new limits on cancer-causing benzene, adopted by the Bush administration under legal pressure from environmental groups. The requirements, to take effect between 2009 and 2011, would reduce toxic emissions of benzene and other pollutants...
- Research articles 2007-02-10
- New EPA rules eye toxic car emissions
- WASHINGTON -- Toxic fumes from cars and gasoline would be cut significantly under new limits on cancer-causing benzene, adopted by the Bush administration under legal pressure from environmental groups. The requirements, to take effect between 2009 and 2011, would reduce toxic emissions of benzene and other pollutants...
- Research articles 2007-02-10
- New EPA rule targets toxic car emissions
- WASHINGTON -- Toxic fumes from cars and gasoline would be cut significantly under new limits on cancer-causing benzene, adopted by the Bush administration under legal pressure from environmental groups. The requirements, to take effect between 2009 and 2011, would reduce toxic emissions of benzene and other pollutants...
- Research articles 2007-02-10
- New EPA rules target toxic car emissions
- WASHINGTON -- Toxic fumes from cars and gasoline would be cut significantly under new limits on cancer-causing benzene, adopted by the Bush administration under legal pressure from environmental groups. The requirements, to take effect between 2009 and 2011, would reduce toxic emissions of benzene and other pollutants...
- Research articles 2007-02-10
- 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...
- Research articles 2008-03-17
- REFINERY MSAT COMPLIANCE BURDEN VARIES BY REGION
- Some regions of the U.S. will have a tougher time complying with the U.S. EPA's proposed mobile source air toxics MSAT regulations, according to agency data that reveal gasoline benzene content varies substantially by region. Because of their earlier investments to produce RFG, East Coast refineries have a head start.Average...
- Research articles 2006-03-06
- 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...
- Research articles 2006-03-03
- Air Toxics Lifetime Cancer Risk High for U.S. City Dwellers
- WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> Residents of most U.S. cities have an air toxics lifetime cancer risk greater than 25 in a million - a rate above the risk of people in the general population, according to the second National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment, released today by the U.S. Environmental Protection...
- Research articles 2006-02-22
- 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...
- Research articles 2005-10-31
- MSAT BENZENE LEVEL MAY BE PROPOSED EARLY IN 2006
- Dear Executive,MSAT BENZENE LEVEL MAY BE PROPOSED EARLY IN 2006Grapevine, Texas - The U.S. EPA's timeline for proposing a new benzene limit is sometime around February 2006, an EPA official confirmed. The limit may be in the range of 0.6 - 0.65 vol% in gasoline. The comments from Lester Wyborny...
- Research articles 2005-10-24
- Western Refiners Offer Regional Twist on Benzene Reductions; EPA Weighed Senators' Suggestions
- While western-state Senators were challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA to modify proposed benzene regulations to ensure air benefits in their region, western-state refiners were offering the White House Office of Management and BudgeWhile western-state Senators were challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA to modify proposed benzene regulations...
- Research articles 2007-01-22
- 35 Years and Counting: IPAA's Environment and Safety Committee Fights For Reasonable Regulation
- As president of Kelley Engineering, IPAA Environment and Safety Committee chairman Roger Kelley has been helping independent oil and natural gas producers all over the U.S. deal with environmental issues for more than a decade."My company represents our clients as their contract environmental staff," Kelley says. "When an issue comes...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Ground Zero helpers sue government over air quality 'lies' after towers fell.
- By Thomas Zambito, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 24--Several Ground Zero workers sued the federal government yesterday for allegedly lying about air quality after the World Trade Center attacks. The suit accuses officials of the...
- Research articles 2004-11-24
- Implications of the precuationary principle for environmental regulation in the United States: examples from the control of hazardous air pollutants in the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments. (Symposium)
- INTRODUCTION In this Article we take a cautionary approach to the Precautionary Principle. We argue that the hazardous air pollutant provisions of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments provide an example of the Precautionary Principle incorporated into U.S. environmental legislation. Evaluating the outcome...
- Research articles 2003-09-22
- Federal Appeals Court Upholds Air Toxic Rules for Refiners.
- A federal court agreed with the Environmental Protection Agency EPA that its rules to curb oil refiners from increasing toxic gasoline emissions was appropriate and dismissed challenges to the rulemaking from environmental groups as "ill founded." The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in its...
- Research articles 2003-04-29
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