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Refiners argue the proposals are too tough, and illegally rewrite the book on how to regulate air pollution in the United States — without proof it will help public health. Officials at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District say the rules offer innovative ways to make the air cleaner.honeywell air purifier model hht-090 “We are taking about significant reductions through some pretty aggressive rules in carrying out our mission to protect public health,” said Eric Stevenson, the air district’s technical services director. biozone 2000 air purifier“We’re taking a closer look at everything and squeezing the last bit of reductions that we can get from refineries.”honeywell quietclean oscillating air purifier

Four of the six proposals are aimed at reducing leaks and would reduce overall emissions from 15,986 tons per year to 13,396, the air district estimated in a report. Two rules would track total emissions in more detail than before, requiring reductions when practical. The rules would cost the five refineries some $10 million a year, a “less than significant cost” compared to their estimated after-tax profits of $2.1 billion a year from those refineries, according to the report. Besides Chevron, the other Bay Area refineries are Shell in Martinez, Phillips 66 in Rodeo, Tesoro north of Concord and Valero in Benicia. An environmental coalition including Communities for a Better Environment, the Sierra Club and several community groups say the proposals don’t go far enough. In a 15-page report, the groups call for detailed numerical caps on greenhouse gases, fine particles, sulfur dioxide and smog-forming nitrogen oxides. While refiners currently must adhere to many detailed rules on limiting pollution from tanks, pipes or other kinds of equipment, there is no overall cap.

“We want a hard cap to reduce pollutants 20 percent by 2020,” said Andres Soto, a community organizer for Communities for a Better Environment, a statewide group based in Oakland. “The district is taking a wait-and-see approach to monitor changes in pollution but not do anything in the near future.” Soto said plant neighbors worry about being exposed to more pollution from Bay Area oil refineries as they switch to dirtier sources of crude oil. District officials say they aren’t ignoring the crude oil concerns. The district proposes to make refiners for the first time report changes in the crude oil coming to their plants to help determine if it will lead to more pollution after the material is refined. But, they oppose setting hard regional limits on greenhouse house gases from individual refineries because the state is regulating the global warming pollutants with a cap under the state’s Assembly Bill 32. “Greenhouse gases are global pollutants,” Stevenson said.

The oil industry contends the district is exceeding its authority because many the new rules are not related to meeting a specific state or federal public health standard for pollutants. “This plethora of existing regulations ensure that the emissions will continue to improve without these new Draconian regulations,” wrote David McCray, an attorney for the Western States Petroleum Association. Tupper Hull, a petroleum association spokesmen, said the proposed rules undermine oil companies’ incentives to invest in equipment improvements such as Chevron’s $1 billion modernization, which is expected to start in mid-2016. “These types of unreasonable and onerous regulations being proposed by BAAQMD will almost certainly discourage companies from investing in Bay Area facilities as opposed to investing capital in their facilities that operate in more favorable regulatory climates,” Hull said. Contact Denis Cuff at 925-943-8267. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is scheduled to discuss and hear comments on six new rules intended to reduce air pollution from five local refineries.