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Title: Alternative future environmental regulatory approaches for petroleum refineries.

Abstract

Recently, many industrial, regulatory, and community leaders have expressed concern that the current environmental regulatory structure disregards multimedia environmental impacts, provides few incentives to develop and use new technologies, and fails to consider site-specific conditions. For the US petroleum refining industry, faced with the need to produce higher-quality fuels from poorer-quality feedstocks, such criticisms are expected to increase. This article offers two alternative environmental regulatory approaches for existing petroleum refineries to use in the future. These alternative approaches are multimedia in scope, provide for new technology development and use, and allow flexibility in the means for meeting environmental goals. They have been reviewed and critiqued by various stakeholders, including industry representatives, regulators, and local and national community and environmental organizations. The integration of stakeholder comments and findings of ongoing national and international regulatory reinvention efforts in the development of these approaches positions them for potential use by other industries in addition to petroleum refineries.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
PO; FE
OSTI Identifier:
942912
Report Number(s):
ANL/EA/JA-35841
Journal ID: ISSN 1462-9011; TRN: US200923%%692
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Environ. Sci. Policy
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 3; Journal Issue: 2000; Journal ID: ISSN 1462-9011
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
ENGLISH
Subject:
02 PETROLEUM; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FLEXIBILITY; FUELS; INDUSTRY; PETROLEUM; PETROLEUM REFINERIES; REFINING; REGULATIONS

Citation Formats

Elcock, D, Gasper, J, Moses, D O, Emerson, D, Arguerro, R, Environmental Assessment, DOE,, and Analytical Services, Inc. Alternative future environmental regulatory approaches for petroleum refineries.. United States: N. p., 2000. Web. doi:10.1016/S1462-9011(00)00085-X.
Elcock, D, Gasper, J, Moses, D O, Emerson, D, Arguerro, R, Environmental Assessment, DOE,, & Analytical Services, Inc. Alternative future environmental regulatory approaches for petroleum refineries.. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1462-9011(00)00085-X
Elcock, D, Gasper, J, Moses, D O, Emerson, D, Arguerro, R, Environmental Assessment, DOE,, and Analytical Services, Inc. 2000. "Alternative future environmental regulatory approaches for petroleum refineries.". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1462-9011(00)00085-X.
@article{osti_942912,
title = {Alternative future environmental regulatory approaches for petroleum refineries.},
author = {Elcock, D and Gasper, J and Moses, D O and Emerson, D and Arguerro, R and Environmental Assessment and DOE, and Analytical Services, Inc.},
abstractNote = {Recently, many industrial, regulatory, and community leaders have expressed concern that the current environmental regulatory structure disregards multimedia environmental impacts, provides few incentives to develop and use new technologies, and fails to consider site-specific conditions. For the US petroleum refining industry, faced with the need to produce higher-quality fuels from poorer-quality feedstocks, such criticisms are expected to increase. This article offers two alternative environmental regulatory approaches for existing petroleum refineries to use in the future. These alternative approaches are multimedia in scope, provide for new technology development and use, and allow flexibility in the means for meeting environmental goals. They have been reviewed and critiqued by various stakeholders, including industry representatives, regulators, and local and national community and environmental organizations. The integration of stakeholder comments and findings of ongoing national and international regulatory reinvention efforts in the development of these approaches positions them for potential use by other industries in addition to petroleum refineries.},
doi = {10.1016/S1462-9011(00)00085-X},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/942912}, journal = {Environ. Sci. Policy},
issn = {1462-9011},
number = 2000,
volume = 3,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2000},
month = {Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2000}
}