NPRA - EIP Report Misleading, Refiners Reducing Emissions.WASHINGTON -- Charles T. Drevna, Executive Vice President of NPRA NPRA National Petrochemical and Refiners Association NPRA National Professional Rodeo Association NPRA National Petroleum Refiners Association NPRA National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska NPRA National Performance Results Act NPRA Nurse Practicing Act and Nursing Peer Review Act of 1999 , the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, released the following statement regarding the Environmental Integrity Project's report "Refined Hazard: Carcinogenic carcinogenic having a capacity for carcinogenesis. Air Pollution from America's Oil Refineries This is a list of oil refineries. The Oil and Gas Journal also publishes a worldwide list of refineries annually in a country-by-country tabulation that includes for each refinery: location, crude oil daily processing capacity, and the size of each process unit in the refinery. ." "Today, the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP (1) (Enterprise Information Portal) See corporate portal. (2) (Extended Instruction Pointer) The program counter on x86 CPUs. ) released another report attacking the petroleum refining industry. The report simply correlates toxic release inventory (TRI TRI Toxics Release Inventory (US EPA) TRI Touch Research Institute TRI Taux de Rentabilité Interne (French: internal rate of return) TRI Taux de Rentabilité Interne TRI Tile Roofing Institute ) information to existing petroleum refineries. Unfortunately, the report does not control for the significant shortcomings A shortcoming is a character flaw. Shortcomings may also be:
prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. actual risk. Emissions included in the TRI are permitted releases which have a pre-determined level that does not pose an unacceptable risk to human health and the environment. "Air toxics data, based on results collected from 300 monitoring sites, are available within the EPA's Air Trends reports and shows that 'nationwide air toxics emissions decreased by approximately 24%' from the baseline years (1990-1993). Thirty-three of these air toxics that pose the greatest threat to public health in urban areas have similarly decreased 31 percent." See http://www.epa.gov/airtrends/toxic.html. "Specifically, EIP mentions benzene emissions. However, trends for benzene at 95 urban monitoring sites around the country show, on average, a 47% drop in benzene levels in recent years. "Toxic emissions have declined in part because of actions taken by the refining industry. First, advanced technology and management systems at refineries and petrochemical facilities have lowered emissions. And second, the introduction of new refinery products -- namely cleaner gasolines -- has reduced the toxics profile of cars and trucks. These reductions will be even more pronounced when the Phase II Mobile Source Air Toxics rules are implemented over the next several years." NPRA is a national trade association with more than 450 member companies, including virtually all U.S. refiners and petrochemical manufacturers. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion