EPA, St. Croix refiner reach legal agreement to remove chemicals

EPA and the new owners of a shuttered refinery on St. Croix, VI, have reached a legal agreement under the Clean Air Act’s risk management program (RMP) to remove dangerous chemicals that have been left on site, the latest step by the agency to ensure the safety of nearby environmental justice communities (EJ) after it used rare air law emergency authority to order the facility to close early in the Biden administration. The Dec. 5 administrative consent order (ACO) between...