Air Quality News
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California-blend gasoline in Los Angeles weakened for the second day after Chevron Corp. reported a plant startup at the El Segundo refinery in Southern California.
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Iran is to get help from China in making electric vehicles that will cut air pollution, Press TV reported, citing Ali Mohammad Shaeri, the deputy head of Iran’s organization for environmental protection.
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Chicago gasoline gained for the first time in four days after Marathon Petroleum Corp. reported a planned unit shutdown at the Catlettsburg refinery in Kentucky and Phillips 66 flared gases at a refinery in Illinois.
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California-blend gasoline in Los Angeles advanced to a two-month high against futures on speculation that plant equipment shut for work is forcing refiners to buy supplies off the spot market.
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Hess Corp. agreed to spend $45 million on pollution controls at its petroleum refinery in Port Reading, New Jersey, and pay $850,000 in penalties to resolve a government lawsuit over harmful emissions.
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New Jersey dropped out of a lawsuit filed four years ago by a group of U.S. states seeking to force the Environmental Protection Agency to implement more stringent air quality standards.
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California-blend gasoline strengthened against futures after ConocoPhillips said it plans to flare gases at its Wilmington refinery through April 24 and distillate inventories touched a seven-month low on the West Coast last week.
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China, the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, said it will provide financial support and individual subsidies to promote the use and development of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles.
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After studying chemistry at Shanghai’s Fudan University, Jane Chuan and Wang Youqi pursued doctorates in the U.S. She got hers from what’s now the University of Buffalo in 1988, the year they married. Wang graduated in 1994 from the California Institute of Technology.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had “no legal basis” to disapprove a Texas plan for implementing federal air-quality standards, a court said.
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