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    <h1 class="headline ">Benzene leak much larger than Houston refinery first thought</h1>

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        <p>A Houston oil refinery damaged by Hurricane Harvey emitted far more benzene than previously thought, a Texas official said yesterday.</p>


	<p>Local and federal officials last week began investigating a leak of benzene, a carcinogen, in a Houston neighborhood near the Valero Energy Partners LP refinery (<a href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060059831/"><em>Greenwire</em></a>, Sept. 6).</p>


	<p>One of the refinery's oil storage tanks was damaged during Harvey, leading to an Aug. 27 spill, U.S. EPA concluded in an investigation.</p>


	<p>While Valero initially reported that 7 pounds of benzene was released in the spill, the company now believes it "significantly underestimated" the amount of the carcinogen, the state official said in an email.</p>


	<p>The exact amount of benzene emitted remains to be determined. A spokeswoman for Valero, which has yet to file a final report on the incident with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, didn't respond to a request for comment yesterday (Alexandra Berzon, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/valero-houston-plant-underestimated-harvey-benzene-leak-1505432176"><em>Wall Street Journal</em></a>, Sept. 15). <strong>— MJ</strong></p>
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