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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.
Tags: benzene, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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...
Tags: benzene, petroleum, refinery, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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...
Tags: benzene, environment, refinery, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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...
Tags: benzene, emission, gasoline, mobile, standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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...
Tags: benzene, car, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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...
Tags: benzene, car, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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...
Tags: benzene, car, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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...
Tags: benzene, car, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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...
Tags: benzene, car, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2007-02-10
Second severe air pollution alert in Serbian town
BELGRADE AFP — Dangerous gases that may have leaked from an ageing petrochemical plant in a Serbian town near Belgrade has triggered an alert overnight, the second such incident in little over a month. Concentrations of benzene in the air in Pancevo reached 117 micrograms per cubic meter around 11:00...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, benzene, MARKETING, pollution
Research articles 2006-12-29
Under a strategic agreement, the Center for Process Analytical Chemistry of the University of Washington will use Aspectrics' EP-IR MultiComponent 500 analyzers to develop advanced BTX
Under a strategic agreement, the Center for Process Analytical Chemistry of the University of Washington will use Aspectrics' EP-IR MultiComponent 500 analyzers to develop advanced BTX (benzene, toluene, xylene) analyzers for petrochemical analysis.
Tags: agreement, benzene, University of Washington
Research articles 2006-10-15
Why drinking beer is good for the planet.
Byline: Helen Thomson Aug 07, 2006 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Scientists have shown that beer bran, a by-product of brewing beer from barley, can be used to remove pollutants from water. Researchers at Kobe Pharmaceutical University in Japan found that...
Tags: benzene, compound, National Academy of Sciences, scientist
Research articles 2006-08-07
Three new nanometer coatings.(Accident Page)(Jiangsu Chenguang Paint Co., Ltd)(Shenzhen Research Institute of Tsinghua University)(Brief article)
Nanometer silver antibacterial coatings, nanometer composite multifunctional coatings and new antibacterial, anti-mildew and anti-algae nanometer environmental friendly coatings jointly developed by Jiangsu Chenguang Paint Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Research Institute of Tsinghua University recently passed the appraisal sponsored by Jiangsu Science and Technology Department. ...
Tags: accident, benzene, Tsinghua University
Research articles 2006-08-06
PET and CNS Myelin
Stankoff et al. from the Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (Paris, France) reported in the June 13 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (206;103:9304-9309) on a proof-of-concept study using PET to image central nervous system CNS myelin. They described 1,4-bis(p-aminostyryl)-2-methoxy...
Tags: benzene, FINANCE, molecule, National Academy of Sciences, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2006-08-01
News Beat
Wal-Mart goes to the dogs... naturallyWal-Mart, which announced in March that it will add 400 organic SKUs to its product mix, is now expanding on that promise. As of mid-May, about half of all Wal-Mart stores will also carry natural dog and cat food.Wal-Mart spokeswoman Jolanda Stewart said the company...
Tags: benzene, Manufacturing, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Research articles 2006-06-01
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
China says spring thawing no threat for toxic-spill hit river
BEIJING AFP — China's top environmental official has said the thawing of ice in the spring will not repollute the Songhua River, the scene of a severe toxic chemical spill last year. "The final conclusion is that this spring, the Songhua River will not have a second incident of...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, benzene, China, pollution, river
Research articles 2006-03-11
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...
Tags: benzene, compliance, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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...
Tags: benzene, emission, gasoline, standards, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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...
Tags: benzene, SOFTWARE, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2006-02-22
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