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Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Justice Department announced a settlement to resolve claims that Rocky Mountain Pipeline System, LLC, Western Convenience Stores, Inc. and Offen Petroleum, Inc. illegally mixed and distributed more than one million gallons of gasoline. The trio of companies will be required pay a $2.5 million civil penalty for the distribution of illegal gas that did not meet Clean Air Act emissions and fuel quality requirements.
Ignacia S. Moreno, assistant attorney general for the environment and natural resources division of the Department of Justice, claims that:
The companies allegedly produced millions of gallons of illegal gas by mixing natural gasoline, a byproduct of natural gas production, and ethanol with gasoline previously certified to meet Clean Air Act requirements at two locations in Colorado. The EPA says that the companies' illegal blending operations may have resulted in more than 10 tons of excess emissions. To offset surplus emissions, the companies will be required to install a costly geodesic dome cover over the gasoline storage tanks where the banned blending occurred.Providing and distributing gasoline that fails to meet the Clean Air Act standards for fuel can have serious consequences for human health and the environment. This settlement appropriately requires that the distributors undertake a project that will result in major annual reductions in emissions of volatile organic compounds in order to offset any harm they may have caused.
[Source: Environmental Protection Agency | Image: Arthur Chapman - C.C. License 2.0]
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