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Oil Refineries: A Deadly Industry

Union of Concerned Scientists

Between 2017 and 2023 there were over 1500 injuries and seven deaths in 153 refineries across the US. It is one of the so-called criteria air pollutants , along with NOx, SOx, carbon monoxide (CO), and lead 5. Refineries have the highest rate of pollution in the oil industry, including air, water and soil pollution.

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Back in Black: Creating positive changes by focusing on a short-lived pollutant

HumanNature

Black carbon is one type of airborne particulate matter (PM), which is a title for all the microscopic solid and liquid particles suspended in our air. vehicles, cook stoves, oil and gas processing, and wildfires to name a few), there will be black carbon. Black Carbon.” Outdoor air pollution accounts for approximately 3.7 – 4.8

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Former Employees Of Eureka Resources Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Company Ask For Criminal Investigation Of Eureka And An Audit Of DEP Over Alleged Workplace, Environmental Violations

PA Environment Daily

From 2017 to 2022, shale gas operators sent a total of 911,006 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to low-level radioactive waste facilities for disposal. We have been subjected to continual gas inhalation, methanol byproducts, carbon monoxide, H2S [hydrogen sulfide] gas, etc., They posted it up. None of it was corrected.”

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