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The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending April 23rd indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US rose by 15 billion cubic feet to 1,898 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 302 billion cubic feet, or 13.7% below the 2,200 billion cubic feet that were in storage on April 23rd of last year, and 40 billion cubic feet, or 2.1% below the five-year average of 1,938 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 23rd of April in recent years..the 15 billion cubic feet that were added to US natural gas storage this week was more than the average forecast of a 9 billion cubic foot addition from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts, but measured well below the average addition of 67 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have typically been injected into natural gas storage during the same week over the past 5 years, as well as well below the 66 billion cubic feet added to na ....
Air Monitoring at five Louisiana refineries revealed benzene above EPA action level 4/28/2021 Cancer-causing benzene emissions from oil refineries exceeded the federal action level for five refineries in Louisiana last year, putting at risk the health of neighboring communities. Nationally, 13 refineries had benzene monitoring readings at their fencelines in 2020 that averaged above EPA’s action level, a regulatory threshold that requires companies to investigate and take action to reduce the dangerous pollution. That was more than the 11 refineries nationally over EPA’s action level in 2019, and two in Louisiana that year, according to a report by the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), “Environmental Justice and Refinery Pollution.” ....
ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Exxon To Pay $13M To Settle Ill. Refinery Pollution Violations Law360 (April 13, 2021, 4:03 PM EDT) Exxon Mobil Corp. has agreed to pay more than $13 million to put to bed allegations that it violated a previous Clean Air Act consent decree at one of its Illinois petroleum refineries, the company and U.S. government announced Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the state of Illinois and the company lodged the proposed settlement amendment in an Illinois federal court, roughly 16 years after the original consent decree was approved. They said the agreement would require emissions reductions and facilities upgrades that will result in cleaner air for nearby communities. ....