{"id":2505,"date":"2012-03-30T14:42:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T14:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/?p=2505"},"modified":"2012-04-02T20:48:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T20:48:29","slug":"strong-standards-are-needed-to-protect-human-health-from-harmful-air-pollution-emitted-from-oil-and-gas-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2012\/03\/30\/strong-standards-are-needed-to-protect-human-health-from-harmful-air-pollution-emitted-from-oil-and-gas-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Standards Are Needed To Protect Human Health From Harmful Air Pollution Emitted From Oil And Gas Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2506\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/38\/files\/2012\/03\/Ramon-Alvarez-Photo-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"245\" \/><em>Update: Please note that the EPA is now due to finalize the national emission standards for\u00a0oil and gas activities by Tuesday, April 17.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On April 3, 2012 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is due to finalize national emission standards to limit some of the harmful air pollutants discharged from a variety of oil and gas activities.\u00a0\u00a0 As Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has noted in past <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2011\/10\/24\/it-makes-dollars-%e2%80%9csense%e2%80%9d-to-capture-air-emissions\/\">blogs<\/a>, leaks, venting and flaring of natural gas from oil and gas activities contribute to ground-level ozone (&#8220;smog&#8221;) and toxic air pollution.\u00a0 As proposed, EPA&#8217;s standards would reduce volatile organic compounds that contribute to smog by 25% and hazardous air pollutants by 30%, through the implementation of proven and highly cost-effective practices and technologies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Emissions from Oil and Gas Activities Linked to Unhealthy Levels of Ozone &#8220;Smog&#8221; Pollution <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Extensive oil and gas development in parts of rural Wyoming and Utah, where little other industrial activity occurs, has led to dangerous ozone levels, higher than those recorded in some of the most heavily polluted cities. Last year, families in Wyoming\u2019s Upper Green River Basin suffered over forty days in which ozone concentrations exceeded the current health standard. \u00a0In Utah\u2019s Uintah basin, residents experienced twice this number of unhealthy ozone days, with one monitor located in Ouray recording forty exceedances alone.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 then <a href=\"http:\/\/deq.state.wy.us\/AQD\/Ozone\/Gov%20Ozone%20to%20EPA%20(Rushin)_Final_3-12-09.pdf.%5d\">Governor of Wyoming Dave Freudenthal requested<\/a> EPA designate counties within the Upper Green River Basin as out of attainment with the current ozone health standard explaining the link between natural gas emissions and the serious ozone problems:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The State of Wyoming is also challenged by the need to reduce emissions from the natural gas industry which has not\u00a0traditionally been regulated for ozone nonattainment problems&#8230;.Therefore, the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (WDEQ) has already identified the sources\u00a0that require controls such as drill rigs, pneumatic pumps, dehydration units and small heaters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>EPA \u00a0in turn concluded \u201c[t]he [Wyoming] AQD\u2019s analysis provided with its recommendation shows that elevated ozone at the Boulder monitor is primarily due to local emissions from oil and gas development activities: drilling, production, storage, transport and treating of oil and natural gas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Colorado and Texas, smog-forming emissions from the oil and gas industry have exceeded other major sources of pollution such as vehicles.\u00a0\u00a0 In 2008, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment concluded that the smog-forming emissions from oil and gas operations exceeded vehicle emissions for the entire state.\u00a0 Similarly, a 2009 study found that summertime emissions of smog-forming pollutants from oil and gas sources in the Barnett Shale were roughly comparable to emissions from all of the motor vehicles in the Dallas Fort-Worth area.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Oil and Gas Activities Emit Benzene-A Known Carcinogen-and other Air Toxics<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Venting, flaring and equipment leaks also emit hazardous air pollutants or air toxics, including hydrogen sulfide, formaldehyde and benzene into the environment.\u00a0 Elevated levels of benzene have been detected near gas production sites in Texas and Colorado. In 2010 the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) measured acute concentrations of benzene that exceeded the state\u2019s health-based risk levels at two exploration and production sites in the Barnett Shale in Texas. Research based on air samples taken from oil and gas sites in the Piceance Basin in Colorado in 2008 determined that emissions from well completions, dehydration units, and condensate tanks posed an elevated cancer risk to nearby residents. Similarly, atmospheric measurements collected by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration concluded that \u201coil and gas operations in the DJB (Denver-Julesburg Basin) could be the largest source of C<sub>6<\/sub>H<sub>6<\/sub> (benzene) in Weld County.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As oil and gas development continues to expand across the country, strong, national clean air standards are essential to protect public health.\u00a0 EPA\u2019s standards, which build on clean air measures already in place in states with extensive oil and gas activities, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2012\/03\/20\/national-clean-air-standards-for-the-oil-and-gas-industry-provide-a-trifecta\/\">such as Colorado and Wyoming<\/a>, are an important first step in strengthening clean air protections for human health and the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Please note that the EPA is now due to finalize the national emission standards for\u00a0oil and gas activities by Tuesday, April 17. 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