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newsrel -- Tesoro Corp. fined $1 million for violating California’s gasoline regulation

Posted: 13 Jul 2015 11:01:29
Please consider the following news release from the California
Air Resources Board: http://bit.ly/1dWrSQq

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 13, 2015

NEWS RELEASE 15-39

CONTACT:

Melanie Turner
(916) 322-2990
melanie.turner@arb.ca.gov


Tesoro Corp. fined $1 million for violating California’s gasoline
regulation 

$253,500 to clean up old diesel school buses in California 

SACRAMENTO - The California Air Resources Board today announced
that Tesoro Corp. has paid $1,014,000 in penalties for violations
of California’s reformulated gasoline regulations.

Tesoro supplied gasoline in violation of state regulations from
two Tesoro refineries and one terminal for a period of 52
violation days.  Tesoro is the second-largest independent
refining and marketing company in the Western U.S. 

“ARB enforcement teams are working on a daily basis to enforce
regulations adopted to protect public health,” ARB Enforcement
Chief Todd Sax said. “Our investigation revealed that Tesoro was
violating California’s fuel requirements, and this agreement
helps ensure these types of violations will not occur in the
future. We expect all companies that supply fuel in California to
meet our fuel requirements that help protect Californians from
lung-damaging ozone and airborne toxic chemicals that can cause
cancer.”

In all there were four separate violations by Tesoro. In three
cases, Tesoro sold, offered for sale, supplied or offered for
supply California gasoline which had either a sulfur content,
aromatics content or olefin content exceeding specified limits.
All three – sulfur and the two hydrocarbon compounds --
contribute to air pollution, and in each of these cases the
violating fuel got into the marketplace. ARB inspectors
discovered the three exceedances during a routine sampling
inspection. Tesoro cited problems related to its laboratory and
said that changes were made to its laboratory procedures to
prevent similar violations in the future.

In the fourth incident, at Kinder Morgan’s Concord Terminal,
Tesoro incorrectly combined conventional gasoline and CARBOB, or
the California Reformulated Gasoline Blendstock for Oxygenate
Blending. CARBOB is the ‘blendstock’ form of gasoline before an
oxygenate, such as ethanol, is added to it to make finished
gasoline found at gas stations. Tesoro self-disclosed the
violation, citing operator error. None of that fuel ever entered
the marketplace.

Tesoro fully cooperated with ARB in this matter and took diligent
steps to comply, reduce the number of days of violation and
prevent recurrence of similar situations. Of the approximately $1
million in penalties, $760,500 will go to the California Air
Pollution Control Fund and $253,500 will go to fund the retrofit
of California school buses with diesel particulate filters.



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