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An oil refinery in Artesia was listed as one of the nation’s top emitters of air-polluting benzene, a carcinogen known to cause cancer with long term exposure.
HollyFrontier’s Navajo Refinery, situated in the small town in southeast New Mexico’s Permian Basin oilfield and the town s biggest employer, was reported to have benzene emission levels higher than government limits, per a recent study from the Environmental Integrity Project.
It was one of 13 refineries in the report found to have levels of the chemical, a byproduct of crude oil production, above the Environmental Protection Agencies “action level.”
The study was conducted for 12 months in 2020, ending on Dec. 31 of last year, and was released in April.
By Nadia Ramlagan & Public News Service
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A Marathon oil refinery in eastern Kentucky is emitting benzene into the air at levels higher than what the federal Environmental Protection Agency says require action to curb.
Benzene is a well-known carcinogen that can cause leukemia. According to a report from the Environmental Integrity Project, benzene readings at the Boyd County refinery jumped 233% between 2019 and 2020.
Ilan Levin, associate director at the group, said last year s levels were 11% above the EPA action level. These are not necessarily Clean Air Act violations, said Levin
. But the data indicates clearly that we ve got a problem at many of these U.S. refineries.
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