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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ColtonGang who wrote (41001)	9/30/2000 6:15:34 AM
From: ColtonGang	Respond to of 769667

UNDER CLINTON'S WATCH.......ExxonMobil agrees to $1.5 million penalty in pollution case By the Associated Press TORRANCE, Calif. (September 30, 2000 12:14 a.m. EDT nandotimes.com) - ExxonMobil, in an agreement announced Friday, will spend $1.5 million to atone for water pollution and failure to adequately ensure against air pollution at its Torrance refinery. The Environmental Protection Agency, which announced the agreement Friday, said a comprehensive study of the refinery in 1994 turned up violations of several environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the Community Right to Know Act. ExxonMobil will pay $500,000 in fines, give $200,000 to the Torrance Fire Department to spend on emergency response equipment and spend $800,000 to study and set up water recycling equipment at the refinery. Christopher Sproul, an attorney with EPA's Region 9, said the problems discovered were "comparable" with those found at other refineries that have gone through top-to-bottom inspections. Carolin Keith, ExxonMobil's West Coast public affairs manager, said her company contends that a naturally occurring metal in the water - perhaps manganese or iron - is to blame for the toxicity. The corporation will pay for a study to determine why the groundwater is toxic, which Sproul said is the only refinery violation that has not yet been fixed. Sproul said the study could cost $300,000. Keith said the EPA's involvement led the company to set up a system of reporting releases of hazardous materials that is a model for other refineries. I guess you Bushies will give Clinton some credit for this, or will you say the republican Congress should take credit