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US 2nd-largest petroleum refinery to pay more than $5.3M for Clean Air Act violations

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million and spend more than $700 million in new pollution controls that will help protect public health and resolve Clean Air Act violations at its St. Croix, US Virgin Islands refinery. Hovensa LLC became the owner and operator of the former Hess Oil Virgin Islands Corp. HOVIC) refinery on 30 October 1998.

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IMO sets 2020 date for ships to comply with low sulfur fuel oil requirement; 5000 ppm

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An increasing number of ships are also using gas as a fuel as when ignited it leads to negligible sulfur oxide emissions. Ships may also meet the SO x emission requirements by using approved equivalent methods, such as exhaust gas cleaning systems or “scrubbers”, which “clean” the emissions before they are released into the atmosphere.

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