EIP joins other groups in submitting comments to the draft air permits issued by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) for the BP oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana
Mar 25, 2008
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IDEM's draft permits do not fulfill the requirements of the Clean Air Act. For example, while the draft construction permit finds that BP "netted out" of CAA New Source Review (NSR), the flawed analysis depends on permit conditions that are not practically enforceable, fails to count emissions from three new flares, and fails to address the increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Further, the draft Title V permit fails to include a required schedule of compliance, and neither permit adequately accounts for the higher levels of pollutants in "tar sands" crude oil.
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