{"id":5679,"date":"2023-05-27T13:41:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T13:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=5679"},"modified":"2023-05-27T13:43:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T13:43:42","slug":"u-s-justice-department-probes-california-refinery-over-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/5679\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Justice Department probes California refinery over emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"description\">\n<p>Roydad Naft News Agency &#8211; The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating a California unit of oil refiner PBF Energy Inc over a November emissions release, the company said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PBF Energy&#8217;s\u00a0Martinez refinery emitted a &#8220;powdery substance&#8221; later determined to be spent catalysts used in the refining process last Nov. 24 and 25 and had failed to notify the county of the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are cooperating with all relevant agencies, including with respect to any ongoing investigations related to the incident,&#8221; said a PBF Energy spokesperson on Friday, declining further comment on pending legal matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Justice, which oversees the FBI, did not reply to a Reuters request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parsippany, N.J.-based PBF acquired the refinery, located on an 860-acre site in Martinez, in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Los Angeles Times earlier reported the FBI and EPA were canvassing local residents as part of an investigation into the spent catalysts&#8217; release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A sample collected last year by Contra Costa Health Services showed levels of aluminum, barium, chromium, nickel, vanadium, and zinc higher than normal background levels for those metals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Contra Costa District Attorney is pursuing legal action against the refinery for failing to notify the county when the release happened, county health officials have said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The oil refiner &#8220;thoroughly investigated the incident to identify appropriate corrective actions and we are committed to implementing them,&#8221; the PBF Energy spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-date no-social-btn post-updated\">Updated on<time class=\"updated dt-updated\" itemprop=\"dateModified\" datetime=\"2023-05-27T13:43:42+00:00\"> 27 May 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roydad Naft News Agency &#8211; The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating a California unit of oil refiner PBF Energy Inc over a November emissions release, the company said. PBF Energy&#8217;s\u00a0Martinez refinery emitted a &#8220;powdery substance&#8221; later determined to be spent catalysts used in the refining process last Nov. 24 and 25 and had failed [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,23,36,19,16],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-5679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-hse","category-lastnews","category-news","category-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5679"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=5679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}