Refiners Urge New Look at Diesel Fuel Rule.(Brief Article)

Chemical Market Reporter, January, 2001 by HESS, GLENN

NPRA to ask Bush Administration to review EPA sulfur content rule. US REFINERS PLAN to ask the incoming Bush Administration to "take another look" at a controversial final rule that would virtually eliminate sulfur in diesel fuel, a top industry official told CMR. Bob slaughter, general counsel for the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association (NPRA), said the regulation issued by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on December 21 has the potential to cause severe supply shortages which would cause the pump price of diesel fuel to skyrocket.

"The industry shares the objective of going to lower sulfur fuels. We put a proposal on the table to EPA for substantial diesel sulfur reductions--over 90 percent--and the agency went far...

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