QUOTE (abstract): Even using the EPAs more conservative estimates, the amount of toxic pollution emitted by the oil and gas industry is enormous. EPA estimates that the industry emits at least 127,000 tons of hazardous air pollutants every year, including benzene, xylenes, and hydrogen sulfide, noted a 2012 EPA fact sheet. This is more than any TRI*-reporting industry except electric utilities, and equivalent to thirty percent of the total release of hazardous air pollutants reported to the TRI for 2010. [*Toxic Release Inventory is a federal pollution database, established under the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act, and can be used by first-responders in the event of a crisis as well as members of the general public.] The organizations the Environmental Integrity Project is representing in the lawsuit include the Center for Effective Government (formerly known as OMB Watch), the Natural Resources Defense Council, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Citizens for Pennsylvanias Future (PennFuture), the Clean Air Council, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, the Responsible Drilling Alliance, and Texas Campaign for the Environment. truth-out.org/news/item/28714-epa-sued-over-disclosure-rules-for-toxic-pollution-from-drilling-and-fracking
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 00:13:43 +0000
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