Data collected during the state’s most recent air monitoring trips include one benzene reading that was three times the Texas hourly guideline, the weakest in the nation. In two instances ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is investigating whether companies at Portland’s fuel storage hub on the Willamette River are following requirements to prevent the release of excess toxic vapors ...

Benzene stripping technologies are crucial for achieving cleaner air and water by effectively removing harmful contaminants ...

The levels exceed even Texas’s benzene guidelines — the weakest in the nation — but aren’t being recorded by monitors.

Scientists have developed a new material capable of capturing the harmful chemical benzene from the polluted air, offering a potential solution for tackling a major health and environment risk. The ...

Estimates of nationwide public health and other societal costs from air pollution have been ... oil refineries also have fence-line monitoring for benzene, and 53 facilities in the state will ...

Occupational safety officials worldwide have generally recommended that exposure in the workplace be limited to one part of benzene per million parts of air, or one p.p.m., over an eight-hour workday.

The UK standard for benzene was later adopted by the rest of the European ... 2.) Long term background air quality monitoring; and 3.) Diffusive sampling development in collaboration with the European ...