Stricter U.S. refinery emission rules not needed: EPA - Reuters

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Stricter U.S. refinery emission rules not needed: EPA
Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:39PM EDT

By Chris Baltimore

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health risks linked with
toxic air pollution from crude oil refineries are
"acceptably low" and don't justify tighter federal
rules, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said
on Thursday.

The EPA was required to review its policy on refinery
pollutants by a settlement reached in 2006 with
environmental groups like the Sierra Club, who had
sued the agency in 2005 for missing a 2003 deadline
for issuing its review.

In a policy statement, the EPA declined to update
refinery emission rules it issued in 1995 because "the
risks to human health and the environment are low
enough that no further controls are warranted."

Environmental groups said the rules would put the 90
million Americans who live within 30 miles of an oil
refinery at increased risk of cancer and other health
hazards due to higher exposure to chemicals like
naphthalene, toluene and hexane, which the EPA
defines as "hazardous air pollutants."

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN2325919920070823

[MadMaddie]

1. The same EPA that said the air was good air in New York

immedietly after 9/11? I gotta levie to sell you in New Orleans!!:sarcasm:

[spag68]

2. New rules, old rules

what does it matter, I have a signing statement here that says they don't apply to me.