A Western Easter weekend explosion with its over 11 hour fire and subsequent flaring by Valero Energy & an Orthodox Easter weekend fire and its 27 hours flaring by PBF Energy, released a lot more than nuisance odors...... Neither facility provides adequate real-time information for residents to know what they are being exposed to, for residents to determine if they should leave or stay. Disingenuous statements are not protective of human health.
The reported "nuisance" of 2/10 ppm Sulfur Dioxide is equivalent to 200 ppb SO2.
Sulfur dioxide acute exposure begins at 0.01 ppm or 10 ppb and the one-hour health standard is 75 ppb. Hardly a nuisance, more of a public health emergency effecting respiratory systems in human beings, and especially in children, elderly, and active healthy adults.
Article by Mark Schleifstein : Environment/Hurricane/Levee reporter for The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate; Co-author, Path of Destruction; Member, SEJ, IRE
https://www.nola.com/news/business/article_5c1634c2-8408-11ea-9e05-671699981e3a.html
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