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Big Refiner Is Fined And Will Spend $525 Million To Improve Air

Rubatex Msds The Justice Department announced a settlement on Thursday with the largest oil-refining company in the country over violations of the Clean Air Act. The accord, officials said, will lead to annual reductions of 47,000 tons of harmful emissions.

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Rubatex Neoprene Under the settlement, the refiner, ConocoPhillips of Houston, will pay civil fines of $4.5 million and spend more than $525 million for technological upgrades on nine refineries in seven states to comply with a provision known as new source review. That regulation requires companies to add new pollution controls when they expand their plants.

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Rubatex Pipe The refineries are in California, Illinois, Louisiana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington. They represent nearly 10 percent of the national refining capacity in the United States.

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Rubatex 180 "ConocoPhillips is committed to achieving these significant emissions reductions in conjunction with its ongoing business plans," a spokeswoman, Lara Dilley, said. "These actions will improve environmental performance and support continued safe and reliable operations of the refineries."

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Rubatex 180 Fs The agreement is the largest of 13 that the government has negotiated with domestic refineries since the Environmental Protection Agency started enforcing violations of the new source review rule in 1998.

Rubatex 1800 The accord brings 55 percent of the refining industry into compliance. Over all, the settlements represent annual reductions of more than 250,000 tons of nitrogen oxide, which forms smog, and sulfur dioxide, which forms soot. The two chemicals harm human health.

Rubatex 320 Although officials at the agency said the accords represented a major success, they also highlight the difficulties in reaching similar agreements with the utility industry, which accounts for most air pollution.

Rubatex 373 All the settlements with refiners over new source review have been achieved without suits. The government has 15 suits against the operators of power plants for what it calls similar violations. It has reached settlements in seven, covering less than 10 percent of the industry.

Rubatex Rubber "For whatever reason, when confronted, refineries find it in their interest to settle," the chief enforcement officer of the E.P.A., Thomas V. Skinner, said. "It helped that early on the government got settlements with some of the bigger companies like BP and Koch. Not all came in. But once a couple of leaders reached settlements, it might have changed the dynamic of the industry.

Rubatex Tape "When utilities are confronted, they fight it tooth and nail."

Rubatex Closing A lobbyist for the energy industry, Scott Segal, said utilities were more reluctant to settle suits, in part, because of disagreement with the government over whether upgrading their plants represents routine maintenance, which is not subject to new source review, or expansion, which is. Conceding on one case, Mr. Segal said, would inevitably lead to "a cycle of perpetual regulatory review."

Rubatex Closed Cell Gasketing "So every time there's the smallest new action," he added, "it would lead to more regulations."

Felpro Gaskets Ed Murphy, group director of downstream and industry operations for the American Petroleum Institute, a trade group, said refiners were willing to settle cases because they had to satisfy changing standards on environmental emissions. Companies are investing $18 billion to accommodate standards for gasoline and diesel that go into effect in 2007, Mr. Murphy said.

Poly Products Supplies "If they don't make the changes," he said, "they go out of business."

By Michael Janofsky
New York Times - 1/28/2005

Topic: Air Pollution

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