WASHINGTON, D.C. (6/16/2005) - The Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a comprehensive Clean Air Act settlement with petroleum refiner Sunoco that is expected to reduce harmful air emissions by more than 24,000 tons per year from four refineries in three states. The agreement will bring nearly 65 percent of domestic refining capacity into compliance with the law.
Environmentally Beneficial Projects: Valued at $3.9 million.
Supplemental Environmental Projects include refinery upgrades at Philadelphia facility to further reduce emissions and the subsidizing of low sulfur fuels purchases in the Philadelphia area.
State and Local Projects include clean diesel retrofits for municipal vehicles in the Philadelphia area and asthma prevention services.
In December 2011, Sunoco shut down and permanently ceased all crude petroleum refining operations at the Marcus Hook, PA refinery. All of the emission units at the Marcus Hook refinery which were required to obtain permits incorporating specified surviving emission limits and standards established under the Consent Decree have been permanently shut down and the associated permits relinquished. On December 6, 2013, the Consent Decree as it applies to the Marcus Hook refinery was terminated by the Court.