E.P.A. Cuts Pollution Levels With Refinery Settlements
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The Environmental Protection Agency has enjoyed unusual success in bringing down pollution levels from some of the nation's largest oil refining companies.
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By Chris Bowman, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 17--To operators of the Sacramento regional sewage treatment works skirting Elk Grove, the rail tanker that lumbers up to the sprawling plant every few days represents a delivery of disinfectant to purify wastewater.   But to the U.S.
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By Brian Nearing, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Jun. 6--WASHINGTON -- Recommendations in a national study on federal water pollution cleanup projects already are part of planned PCB dredging of the Hudson River at Fort Edward, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Dec. 11--The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency wants to curtail emissions from paints and industrial coatings to help clean the air of harmful ozone.
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By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  May 26--The federal Environmental Protection Agency continues to press the state over last-minute changes that appear to weaken an ozone clean-up for Dallas-Fort Worth.
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By The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep. 21--What started out as a simple dredging proposal to improve navigation at the base of Budd Inlet has turned into a costly need to clean up chemical contamination in the inlet.
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By Journal Record Staff  Sinclair Tulsa Refining Co. on Wednesday reached a settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice regarding alleged violations to the Clean Water Act.
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Negotiators from 158 countries reached basic agreement on rough targets aimed at getting some of the worldâs biggest polluters to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
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PetroChina (0857.HK), Asia&#39;s top oil  and gas company, has won environmental clearance for its oil  and petrochemical projects to be funded by a planned domestic  stock offering, the country&#39;s environment watchdog said.
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U.S. environmental regulators issued new standards on Friday to reduce the amount of cancer-causing emissions from gasoline, vehicles operating in cold weather and portable gas cans.
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Oil giant BP Plc  said on Friday it settled two more civil lawsuits linked to the 2005 blast at its Texas City, Texas, refinery that killed 15 people.
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By Zhan Lisheng  GUANGZHOU: Guangdong Province is trying to curb industrial pollution by preventing cities with excessive pollutant emissions being granted new investment projects.
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Recently issued rules by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency focus on severely limiting the amount of toxic emissions from cars and trucks.
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By James Carlson  By James Carlson  THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL  Environmental Protection Agency workers on Wednesday began removing more than 650 containers of hazardous material from a building at Forbes Field.
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The nation's biggest oil refiner agreed yesterday to spend more than $525 million to clean up nine plants scattered across the country, effectively removing 47,000 tons of harmful pollution from the air each year.
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NPRA, the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, today released  the following statement on EPA's Mobile Source  Air Toxics (MSAT) Phase 2 Final Rule to reduce hazardous air pollutants,  including benzene and other hydrocarbons, in motor fuels and vehicles.
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Citgo Petroleum Corp. will pay a $3.6 million fine in a settlement with the US Justice Department and also spend $320 million to cut air pollution from six of its refineries, the government said on Wednesday.