STATES URGE EPA TO ADOPT STRICTER REFINERY FUEL BENZENE STANDARD

A group of state and local air officials is urging EPA to require stricter reductions in the amount of the air toxic benzene found in gasoline than the agency is proposing, arguing that EPA's own data show more stringent controls are feasible. The State and Territorial Air Pollution Program Administrators/Association of Local Air Pollution Control Officials (STAPPA/ALAPCO) is urging EPA to require refineries to reduce benzene content in fuel beyond the agency's recently proposed 0.62 percent content. EPA's mobile source...