A combination of low inventories and refinery maintenance could be spurring some Chinese state-owned companies to seek gasoil imports for the fourth quarter, sources said this week. Though market sources said that state-owned trader ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that Suncor Energy has agreed to pay $230,400 in penalties to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has settled with UniSea, Inc., an Alaska seafood processor, for alleged violations of the federal Clean Air Act Risk Management Program. On July 21, 2010, EPA inspected the UniSea seafood ...
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Polyester clothes stink more than cotton clothes after work-out, as bacteria that cause the bad smell grow more on polyester clothes, according to a report by the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. According to the research, ...
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Researchers in Japan and USA have claimed the first experimental demonstration of higher breakdown voltage for slant field-plate (FP) gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) over convention field-plate designs ...
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Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the Second Integrated Urban Air Toxics Report to Congress - the final of two reports required under the Clean Air Act (CAA) to inform Congress of progress in reducing public ...
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WASHINGTON – In a settlement with the United States, Minnesota Power, an ALLETE company based in Duluth, has agreed to install pollution control technology and meet stringent emission rates to reduce harmful air pollution from the ...
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BOSTON – An EPA settlement will require that a Rhode Island asphalt manufacturing company comply with its Clean Air Act permit designed to minimize air emissions and protect air quality around the community where it operates. The ...
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European refining margins have recovered from their lows of last month, driven by a pick-up in products markets, especially jet fuel and gasoline, following run cuts throughout the region, according to traders. "Demand for products ...
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Rhino Resource Partners soon will make its first shipment of high-sulfur steam coal from the new Pennyrile underground mine in Western Kentucky to Louisville Gas & Electric, a Rhino official said Monday. Pennyrile, also known as ...
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Vietnam's state-owned Petrolimex, which accounts for more than half of domestic oil product sales, cut its diesel and kerosene retail prices marginally but kept gasoline and fuel oil rates unchanged, effective late Thursday, according to a ...
Southern Coal Corp is seeing an uptick in demand for high-quality steam coal this year, but the metallurgical side of its business continues to lag, which is why the company has temporarily idled its Tams No 1 mine in Raleigh County, West ...
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US Gulf Coast 3% sulfur fuel oil jumped $2.25 on Thursday to an eight-month high of more than $94/barrel following a spike in crude oil and swaps prices. Gulf Coast HSFO was assessed at $94.08/b following activity in the Platts Market on ...
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The city-owned utility in Owensboro, Kentucky, received about 10 bids in response to a recent request for proposals to buy 250,000-500,000 st of high-sulfur coal for 2015 and 500,000-750,000 st in 2016-2019, a utility official said Monday. ...
Loading volumes for Republic of Congo's two main crude oil grades -- Djeno and N'Kossa -- are set to rise in July to a total of 7.42 million barrels from 6.47 million barrels in June, according to copies of preliminary loading schedules ...
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