refinery pollution
Looks like refinery "Whack-A-Mole." Stop a pollution increase here, and it goes somewhere else. Or maybe it happens at both facilities!
But Marathon Petroleum acknowledged the expansion could result in more air pollution. The company said it expects an increase of about 30% in carbon monoxide and particulates emitted into the air. Marathon, the nation's fourth-largest oil company, said it plans to buy credits for particulates from other industrial companies to further offset the impact of the increase.
http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070828/BUSINESS06/708280366
Indiana regulators have granted BP another exemption from environmental
standards, this time relaxing rules requiring a sharp drop in harmful
soot pollution from the company's Whiting oil refinery.
The
decision by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management would
allow BP to keep releasing the same amount of microscopic air pollution
as it does today, despite changes in federal rules that would have
required the refinery to cut emissions in half.
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