Oil refinery
EPA Rejects Permits for Dirty Refinery
By admin - Posted on June 10th, 2008
Decision Could Echo Across the Nation
CHICAGO -- June 6 2008 -- In a case that might impact oil refineries around the nation, plans by ConocoPhillips to expand its refinery in Roxana, IL were derailed today when an appeal board of the US Environmental Protection Agency upheld a challenge to the air permit required for the project.
The decision sends ConocoPhillips and Illinois EPA, which had granted the permits, back to the drawing board. The legal challenge argued that harmful air pollution from the refinery’s flares, which relieve pressure in the refining process, was not being sufficiently controlled. » read more »
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