The SCAQMD covers stationary sources of air pollution, such as power stations, oil refineries and manufacturers, which with households produce 25% of the area's ozone-forming pollution.
Another cornerstone of the legislative package is SB 32, which continues executive orders first made by then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2005 and later passed by the legislature in California's groundbreaking 2006 climate change law, which created cap-and-trade emissions requirements for large industrial polluters like oil refineries and power companies.
He was at a car racetrack near Houston, amid a landscape of flat fields and smoke-belching refineries.
Much of the oil never reaches Chinese shores, however, but is resold by Chinese traders on world markets, often ending up in refineries on the west coast of the United States.
Government Restrictions – We support immediate removal of government barriers to free market solutions to production and distribution of energy including restrictions on: drilling and production operations on public and private lands and waters refineries electric power generation and distribution federal gas mileage standards (CAFÉ standards) and fuel blends.
The Koch brothers, whose wide-ranging corporation extends into oil refineries, fertilizer production and polymers, paper and minerals, avidly inject cash into both political causes and cultural ones and do not always shy from the spotlight.
Factories and oil refineries in southern California face a new crackdown on their emissions of air toxins, after experts in the state reported that breathing in pollution carries almost three times the risk of causing cancer than was previously thought, especially for children and babies.
For example, they would surely ask him to approve the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline to carry oil from Canada's tar sands to American refineries.
Most important for the future of the Russian oil industry will be the fate of Yukos's two remaining production units and its network of refineries.
He oversaw every stage in heroin-making, from paying farmers who grew poppies on the hilly plots of the Triangle to the transport of raw gum, in huge sacks, on the backs of hundreds of mules treading narrow jungle paths to the markets and refineries on the border with Thailand, to shipment overseas.
Some have already promised billions of dollars in related investment in pipelines, refineries and power plants.
