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Marathon to hold the line on emissions from Detroit refinery expansion

Marathon Petroleum wants to expand capacity at its Detroit refinery and is prepared to spend $1 billion to do it. The project would create 135 permanent jobs in the city of Detroit (which desperately needs them) along with 1,200 temporary construction jobs. However, refinery expansions generally have a very unfortunate side effect in the form of increased pollution. Not wanting to go through the same public outcry that BP faced when they asked for a permit to increase pollution from their Indiana refinery recently, Marathon has committed to ... Read more →

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