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EPA outlines BP Texas City refinery settlement

03/02/2009
BP Products North America Inc. agreed to spend more than $161 million on pollution controls, and enhanced maintenance and monitoring to resolve Clean Air Act violations at its Texas City, Tex., refinery.The US Department of Justice and the US Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposed settlement Feb. 20 in which BP also would pay a $12 million civil penalty and spend $6 million on a supplemental project to reduce air pollution in Texas City.EPA identified the violations during a series of inspections of the Texas City refinery initiated after a Mar. 23, 2005, explosion and fire killed 15 people and injured more than 170 others at the 446,500 b/cd refinery.Since then, BP has incr...
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