According to an informative article by Kristy Hutchings in the Daily Breeze, Valero will pay more than $270,000 in fines as part of a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, after the regulator found several chemical safety violations at the company’s Wilmington Refinery.
The violations are the result of a June 2022 inspection where the EPA found numerous violations, including underestimating how far dangerous concentrations of chemicals (like HF) could spread in a release. Several other serious issues were found, as listed in the article.
TRAA is mentioned and quoted in the article, which also discusses the dangers of HF and Valero’s handling of this dangerous chemical.
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