Kansas Refinery to Pay $23M for Clean Air Act Violations

Settlement includes measures to reduce emissions and fund an environmentally beneficial project.

Coffeyville Resources Refining and Marketing (CRRM) has agreed to pay over $23 million for violating the federal Clean Air Act and breaching a 2012 settlement for earlier pollution problems.
The violations resulted in illegal emissions from 2015 to 2017 that included an estimated 2,300 excess tons of sulfur dioxide from its oil refinery in Coffeyville, Kansas.
CRRM's efforts to come into compliance with federal requirements have already eliminated more than 39,000 tons per year of carbon dioxide emissions.
A waste gas recovery system required by the settlement will further reduce yearly emissions of greenhouse gases by nearly 13,000 tons, equivalent to using 1.3 million fewer gallons of gasoline annually.
The agreement also requires the company to spend at least $1 million on an environmentally beneficial project to be approved by the state.