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BP products agrees to pay largest single-facility clean air act penalty for releases of Hazardous pollutants at Texas City refinery
$15 million penalty resolves federal civil claims stemming from two fires, leak, and reporting violations at refinery (HQ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Justice Department announced today that BP Products North America Inc. has agreed to pay a $15 million penalty to resolve federal Clean Air Act violations at its Texas City, Texas petroleum refinery. The penalty is both the largest ever assessed for civil violations of the Clean Air Act’s chemical accident prevention regulations, also known as the risk management program regulations, and the largest civil ... |
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A link between air travel and deaths on the ground
The atmosphere is full of natural and man-made chemicals, including emissions from fuel combustion and byproducts of living organisms. Many of these chemicals combine in the atmosphere to form tiny solid and liquid particles known as "fine particulate matter" that are 2.5 micrometers or smaller (the average human hair is about 70 micrometers in diameter, by comparison).
While it`s not clear whether all of these particles may be harmful, some are; the danger to humans comes when they are inhaled and trapped in the lungs, where they can then enter the bloodstream.
In 2004, the World ... |
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