Daily Grist: REFINERIES AND THE EPA!

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At 12:53 PM 8/24/07, you wrote:

 

>Refine! Be That Way!

>EPA rejects stricter emissions standards for U.S. refineries

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>Following a review of the refinery pollution rules it issued in 1995, the

>U.S. EPA has decided not to improve the 12-year-old rules because the

>analysis found that " the risks to human health and the environment are low

>enough that no further controls are warranted. " As the EPA sees it, they

>could do two things: nothing, or maybe consider perhaps requiring

>refineries to curtail some of the pollution from their storage tanks and

>wastewater treatment plants. EPA maintains that the do-nothing plan makes

>sense " because the risks are acceptably low. " Greens, however, see it

>differently. " In the last 12 years there have been numerous studies

>showing that health risks are greater than we originally thought " in some

>cases, said Alice McKeown of the Sierra Club. " The scientific evidence

>shows that these standards are not protective of public health as required

>under the Clean Air Act. " About 90 million people in the U.S. live within

>30 miles of a refinery, just not anyone who will be missed by the Bush

>administration.

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>straight to the source: Reuters, Chris Baltimore, 23 Aug 2007

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>straight to the source: The Daily Times, The News Journal, Jeff

>Montgomery, 24 Aug 2007

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>straight to the source: U.S. EPA press release, 23 Aug 2007

 

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