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AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml to Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.ml · 4 years ago

Harmful soot unchecked as Big Oil battles EPA over testing

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Harmful soot unchecked as Big Oil battles EPA over testing

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AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml to Green - An environmentalist community @lemmy.ml · 4 years ago
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A deadly form of soot pollution from U.S. refineries has gone unregulated for decades because of a dispute between the U.S. oil industry and federal environmental officials over how to measure it, according to documents from the Environmental Protection Agency reviewed by Reuters. The delay in addressing so-called condensable fine particulate matter emissions means this pollutant is being released by scores of facilities across the country unchecked, adding to a slew of other contaminants from oil refineries that researchers say take a disproportionately large toll on the health of poor and minority communities living nearby. The absence of a federal standard has led at least one regional air quality regulator in California to attempt a crack-down on these emissions, an effort that has sparked litigation from oil refiners located there.
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