EPA's outdated water discharge standards

 “People say we need the jobs and the products (refineries) make.” “That’s true. But we don’t need the pollution. They can do better.”  -- John Beard, founder of the Port Arthur Community Action Network, a group working to clean Sabine Lake and other waterways along the Texas-Louisiana border. 

“The EPA’s failure to act has exposed public waterways to a witches’ brew of refinery contaminants,” the study by the Environmental Integrity Project found.

PBF Energy's refinery "near New Orleans ranked 8th, 9th and 10th for releases of nitrogen, a nutrient that feeds algal blooms and is the main contributor to the Gulf of Mexico’s low-oxygen ‘dead zone'."

Louisiana has 8 of the worst water-polluting refineries in the country, study says Heavy metals, nitrogen and ammonia are spilling from oil refineries, tainting the Mississippi, Gulf of Mexico

by Tristan Baurick