Fines for violations of air, water and waste regulations by U.S. petroleum storage facilities so far this year have exceeded all of last year – even without including two major Houston-area disasters in the last month still under investigation – according to a Reuters analysis of federal data.
“There have been some accidents and an awful lot of expansion,” said Eric Schaeffer, executive director of non-profit Environmental Integrity Project and a former director of civil enforcement at the EPA. “There’s been a drop in resources available for enforcement. There have been mixed signals on how much enforcement to do.”
A March fire at a Houston-area petrochemical storage facility raged for days, sending millions of pounds of carbon monoxide and other gases into the air, and leaking thousands of gallons of fuel and toxic foam into waterways.
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