Mossville Environmental Action Now

Workshop for Mossville Community Members and Interested Citizens

Presented by: Wilma Subra Subra Company

Industrial Facilities in Calcasieu Parish that are Impacting the Mossville Community

Health Impacts Associated with Chemicals Released by Industrial Facilities

Accidental Releases and Upset Conditions Reported by Industrial Facilities in the Mossville Area

How the Community Can Report Emergency/Accidental Releases Impacting Mossville and Track the Industry Responses to the Incidents

December 21, 2012

Toxic Release Inventory Air Emissions in Calcasieu Parish

Calcasieu Parish Facilities 2011 Air Emissions pounds

Citgo Petroleum Corp. 1,455,954Firestone Polymers 1,433,100Conoco Phillips Refinery (Phillips 66) 600,814Westlake Petrochemical Ethylene 536,816PPG Industries 432,445Entergy Roy S. Nelson Plant 377,543Westlake Polymers 270,236Sasol North America 241,390W. R. Grace 136,013Rain CII Carbon 123,588Equistar Chemicals 72,449Lake Charles Carbon 45,782Calcasieu Refining 27,677Georgia Gulf 24,299Louisiana Pigment 20,961Westlake Styrene Marine Terminal 13,706Bollinger Calcasieu 13,000Biolab Inc. 11,860Carboline Co. 11,312Certainteed Corp. 6,400Pumpelly Oil Acquisition 3,190Pelican Refining Co. 1,291 Arch Chemicals 914Southern Ionics 825Conoco Phillips Lubes Plant 533Gulf Coast Chemicals 500Air Products & Chemicals 418Chemical Waste Management 356Praxair Inc. 138Martin Operating 36Shaw Modular Solutions 0.0

Toxic Chemical Air Emissions in the Mossville Area (EPA Toxic Release Inventory 2011)

Vinyl Chloride PPG 9,400 pounds per year Georgia Gulf 5,639 pounds per year Certainteed 2,540 pounds per year

Dichloroethane/Ethylene Dichloride (EDC) PPG 6,100 pounds per year Georgia Gulf 13 pounds per year

Ethylene Oxide Sasol North America 5,875 pounds per year Georgia Gulf 8 pounds per year

Formic Acid Sasol 7,144 pounds per year

Dioxin and Dioxin Like Compounds Entergy Roy S. Nelson 1.3054 grams per year Citgo Petroleum 0.82 grams per year Conoco Phillips (Phillips 66) 0.61667 grams per year PPG 0.523 grams per year Georgia Gulf 0.5051 grams per year La Pigment 0.1425 grams per year Lake Charles Carbon 0.10094 grams per year Sasol North America 0.06 grams per year

Toxic Chemical Air Emissions in the Mossville Area (EPA Toxic Release Inventory 2011)

Benzene Citgo Petroleum 47,069 pounds per year Sasol North America 19,614 pounds per year Westlake Petrochem Ethylene 11,116 pounds per year Conoco Phillips (Phillips 66) 10,767 pounds per year Calcasieu Refining 8,694 pounds per year Westlake Styrene Marine Ter. 431 pounds per year Pelican Refining 335 pounds per year PPG 304 pounds per year Conoco Phillips Lube Plant 255 pounds per year Georgia Gulf 19 pounds per year Carboline 2 pounds per year

Chlorine Citgo Petroleum 34,464 pounds per year PPG 13,670 pounds per year Biolabs 11,860 pounds per year Georgia Gulf 958 pounds per year La Pigment 851 pounds per year Westlake Petrochem 80 pounds per year Arch Chemical 83 pounds per year Conoco Phillips (Phillips 66) 60 pounds per year W. R. Grace 20 pounds per year

Health Impacts of Toxic Chemicals Released by Industrial Facilities in the Mossville Area

Vinyl Chloride Carcinogen and Mutagen Causes liver and lung cancer -angeocarcoma of the liver Suspected to cause brain cancer Causes reproductive damage - damages fetus Damages liver, nervous system, lungs Irritates and burns skin and eyes Irritates nose, throat, lungs Causes headaches, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, fatigue, weakness and confusion

Ethylene Dichloride (EDC)/Dichloroethane Carcinogen and Mutagen Causes damage to liver and kidney Irritates and burns skin and eyes Causes nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain Causes headache, dizziness, light headiness

Benzene Carcinogen and Mutagen Causes leukemia Causes damage to blood cells (aplastic anemia) Irritates skin, eyes, nose, throat Causes headaches, dizziness, nausea and vomiting Formic Acid Irritates nose, throat and lungs Causes headaches, dizziness, nausea and vomiting Causes skin allergies Damages kidneys

Health Impacts of Toxic Chemicals Released by Industrial Facilities in the Mossville Area

Dioxin and Dioxin Like Compounds Reproductive and Developmental toxin Damages immune system Carcinogen and Teratogen Damages liver and alters liver functions Irritates and burns skin and eyes Causes headaches, weakness, dizziness, nausea, vomiting Affects nervous system Causes personality and mood changes

Chlorine Causes severe irritation and burns to skin and eyes Irritates nose, throat, lungs Causes asthma-like allergies Causes headache, dizziness, nausea and vomiting Ethylene Oxide Carcinogen and Teratogen Irritates and burns skin and eyes Irritates nose, throat, lungs Causes headaches, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and twitching Causes skin allergies Damages nervous system Damages liver and kidneys

Accidental Chemical Releases from Georgia Gulfin 2012

___________________________________________Date Chemical Quantity___________________________________________1/9/12 Vinyl Chloride 1 pound Chloride 1 pound Hydrogen Chloride 1 pound Chlorine 1 pound Ethylene 1 pound Chloroform 1 pound

2/1/12 Vinyl Chloride 20 pounds E Chloroform 115 pounds Carbon Tetrachloride 45 pounds Ethyl Chloride 184 pounds Ethylene Dichloride 72 pounds Ethylene 123 pounds 2/1/12 Vinyl Chloride 3 pounds Chloroform 17 pounds Carbon Tetrachloride 7 pounds Ethyl Chloride 27 pounds Ethylene Dichloride 10 pounds Ethylene 18 pounds 2/21/12 Vinyl Chloride 0.53 pounds

4/28/12 Vinyl Chloride 12 poundsEthylene Dichloride 9.8 pounds

HCL 9.8 poundsEthylene 9.5 pounds

Chloroform 9.6 pounds Carbon Tetrachloride 3.8 pounds

Accidental Chemical Releases from Georgia Gulfin 2012 (continued)___________________________________________Date Chemical Quantity___________________________________________

6/21/12 Vinyl Chloride 2 pounds Ethylene Dichloride 100 pounds Carbon Tetrachloride 10 pounds Chloroform 10 pounds Ethylene 100 pounds Ethylene Chloride 100 pounds

7/6/12 Vinyl Chloride Fire, Below Other chemicals Reportable Quantity

8/21/12 Ethylene From Emergency Ethylene Dichloride Vent Ethyl Chloride

8/23/12 Vinyl Chloride From Emergency Ethylene Dichloride Vent Carbon Tetrachloride Hydrogen Chloride

E-Emergency Accidental Chemical Release

Accidental Chemical Releases from Sasol North America in 2012

___________________________________________Date Chemical Quantity___________________________________________

1/9/12 Storm water 23,000 gal. (water)

3/19/12 Flaring Ethylene Unit

4/19/12 Flaring Ethylene Unit

5/26/12 Benzene 0.00001 pounds

7/6/12 Hydrogen 763 pounds Methane 747 pounds

7/19/12 Ethylene 1,540 pounds

9/2/12 Benzene 35 pounds

Accidental Chemical Releases from Conoco Phillips Refinery (Phillips 66) in 2012

___________________________________________Date Chemical Quantity___________________________________________

1/10/12 VOCs 10,282 pounds Benzene 3.7 pounds (air)

1/11/12 Mercury

1/24/12 Lube Oil 2 oz. (water)

2/6/12 Oil and Coke Fines <5 gallons

2/11/12 Diesel Spill 75 gallons

2/15/12 Crude Oil 35 gal. (soil)

2/17/12 Sulfur Dioxide 2,623 pounds (air)

3/21/12 Flammable Gases 5,441 pounds

3/28/12 Sulfur Dioxide

4/10/12 Naphtha 2 quarts

4/12/12 Oil Spill 1 cup

6/12/12 Sulfur Dioxide

6/16/12 Sulfur Dioxide 3,965 pounds

7/14/12 Naphtha < 1 gallon

Accidental Chemical Releases from Conoco Phillips Refinery (Phillips 66) in 2012 (continued)

___________________________________________Date Chemical Quantity___________________________________________

9/16/12 Diesel 1 quart

10/27/12 SO2 Less than reportable quantity

11/20/12 Sheen from Creosote Pilings

11/25/12 Diesel 768 gallons

Accidental Chemical Releases from PPG Industries in 2012___________________________________________Date Chemical Quantity___________________________________________

1/10/12 E Oil Sheen (water)

1/18/12 1,2-Dichloroethane 807 pounds (air) Vinyl Chloride Monomer 10 pounds (air) Hydrochloric Acid 4,784 pounds

1/30/12 Brine 9,000 pounds (soil)

2/2/12 Hydrogen Chloride 961.68 pounds (air) 1,1-Dichloroethane (DCE) 11.18 pounds Methyl Chloroform 11.46 pounds 1,1,2 Trichloroethane (TCE) 68.72 pounds 1,1,1,2-Tetrachloroethane 23.45 ponds

4/21/12 E Sodium Hydroxide 27,400 pounds

5/15/12 E Vinyl Chloride 18 pounds 1,2-Dichloroethane 48 pounds HCl gas 4 pounds

5/19/12 EDC & Other Chemicals 15.3 pounds

5/22/12 Brine 30,000 pounds

5/24/12 E Ammonia 144 pounds

6/18/12 Caustic

6/22/12 Diesel 104 gallons

Accidental Chemical Releases from PPG Industries in 2012 (Continued)___________________________________________Date Chemical Quantity___________________________________________6/22/12 EDC 54 pounds

6/30/12 TCE & other chemicals

7/1/12 E EDC 0.17 pound Ethylene Chloride 0.13 pounds Vinyl Chloride 0.6 pounds

7/23/12 E EDC 1978 pounds

8/2/12 E EDC 540 pounds

8/3/12 EDC 20 pounds

8/4/12 DCE 124 pounds

8/5/12 EDC 343 pounds

8/10/12 Chlorine 30 pounds

8/16/12 E Brine 75,000 pounds

9/6/12 Chlorine 8 pounds

9/18/12 Brine 90,000 pounds

9/24/12 HCl 1,190 pounds EDC 0.95 pounds Acetylene 2.15 pounds Vinyl Chloride 0.01 pounds

Accidental Chemical Releases from PPG Industries in 2012 (Continued)___________________________________________Date Chemical Quantity___________________________________________

10/9/12 TCE 2,087 pounds 1,1,1-Trichloroethane 4,155 pounds Other Chemicals 4,059 pounds

10/11/12 Chlorine 7.8 pounds

10/12/12 Chlorine 7.4 pounds

10/22/12 Brine 47,000 pounds

E - Emergency Accidental Chemical Release

Chemicals detected in the ambient air of Mossville from Louisiana DEQ monitoring stations

Benzene Sasol North America Conoco Phillips Refinery (Phillips 66) Georgia Gulf PPG

1,3-Butadiene Sasol North America Conoco Phillips Refinery (Phillips 66)

Chlorobenzene Georgia Gulf PPG Industries Chloroform Georgia Gulf PPG Industries

Ethyl Benzene Sasol North America Conoco Phillips Refinery (Phillips 66)

1,1,2,2- PPG IndustriesTetrachloroethane Georgia Gulf

Toluene Sasol North America Conoco Phillips Refinery (Phillips 66) PPG Industries

1,1,2- PPG IndustriesTrichloroethane Georgia Gulf

Trichloroethylene PPG Industries Georgia Gulf

Vinyl Chloride Georgia Gulf PPG Industries

Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality Ambient Air Monitoring Stations in Calcasieu Parish

Carlyss Monitoring Station - Highway 27 and Highway 108 Ozone Meteorological - Wind Speed and Direction

Lighthouse Monitoring Station - Lighthouse Lane and Bayou D’Inde Pass Volatile Organic Compounds Meteorological - Wind Speed and Direction

McNeese Monitoring Station - Common and E. McNeese Particulate Matter 2.5 Meteorological - Wind Speed and Direction

Vinton Monitoring Station - 2284 Paul Bellow Rd. Ozone Particulate Matter 2.5 Meteorological - Wind Speed and Direction

Westlake Monitoring Station - 2646 John Stine Rd., just off Houston River Road Ozone Nitrogen Oxide Sulfur Dioxide Particulate Matter 2.5 Volatile Organic Compounds Meteriological - Wind Speed and Direction

Blood Dioxin Levels in Mossville Residents 3 times the National Comparison Group

1997 Dioxin in Blood - Law Firm1998 Dioxin in Blood - ATSDRFindings: Mossville residents average Dioxin level, 68.3 ppt, 3 times the National Comparison Group (21 ppt) 2001 Dioxin in Blood - ATSDR 22 individuals 5 from 1997 Law Firm Study 17 from 1998 ATSDR Study Findings: Mossville residents average Dioxin level 61.0 ppt, 3 times the National Comparison Group (21 ppt)

The top 5 Dioxin congeners in the blood equaled 77% of Dioxin congeners. These same 5 congeners matched 77% of the Dioxin congeners released by Georgia Gulf.______________________________________________

Dioxin was also tested by ATSDR in -fruit, vegetables, nuts from Mossville yards -yard soil, indoor dust and attic dust from Mossville homes -fish species caught and eaten by Mossville residents

The attic dust samples had the highest concentration of Dioxin of all samples collected 922.77 ppt

The Dioxin congeners detected in the crops, dust and fish samples corresponded to the Dioxin congeners released by Georgia Gulf Conoco Phillips (Phillips 66) Sasol North America PPG Industries Entergy, Roy S. Nelson Power Plan

Georgia Gulf Air Permit Renewal and Modification

Georgia Gulf submitted an air permit renewal and modification application to the La Department of Environmental Quality (LA DEQ). As part of the review process, LA DEQ required Georgia Gulf to submit modeling results for ambient air concentrations of Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM) and Ethylene Dichloride (EDC). The computer modeling results indicates that the maximum offsite concentrations of VCM and EDC exceed the LA Ambient Air Standard on the roadways, railroads, industrial properties and forested area surrounding the Georgia Gulf facility. The maximum VCM ambient air concentration off site was 6.69 ug/m3 in 2007. This is 5.6 times the Louisiana Ambient Air Standard (1.19 ug/m3). The maximum EDC ambient air concentration off site was 20.06 ug/m3 in 2009. This is 5.2 times the Louisiana Ambient Air Standard (3.85 ug/m3).

On August 10, 2012, Georgia Gulf submitted to DEQ, in response to a request from DEQ, information on the quantity of VCM and EDC emissions that would have to be reduced to approach the ambient air standards at the fence line of the Georgia Gulf facility. The fugitive emissions of VCM would have to be reduced by 84%, and the fugitive emissions of EDC would have to be reduced by 83%. To accomplish such emissions reductions, Georgia Gulf would have had to replace valves and connectors in VCM and EDC service. Georgia Gulf estimated the cost of the purchase of valves and connectors, replacement of the components and production down time, and determined that the cost to lower fugitive emissions would be economically infeasible.

LA DEQ granted the renewal and modified air permit to Georgia Gulf on August 13, 2012. On September 12, 2012, MEAN filed suit to challenge the granting of the permit in the 19th Judicial District Court in Baton Rouge. On September 18, 2012, the court stayed the effectiveness of the newly issues permit.

Georgia Gulf Proposed New Chlor-Alkali Plant

From mid June 2012 through July 19, 2012, LA DEQ held a public comment period on a proposed new Georgia Gulf Chlor-Alkali Plant. Georgia Gulf was proposing to add a Chlor-Alkali Plant adjacent to the Georgia Gulf VCM Monomer Plant. Comments were submitted during the comment period on behalf of MEAN.

On July 24, 2012, Georgia Gulf requested that the permitting process for the proposed Chlor-Alkali Plant be suspended. On September 6, 2012, LA DEQ notified Georgia Gulf that the agency was suspending all permitting activities on the proposed Chlor-Alkali Plant.

Georgia Gulf Buys PPG Chlor-Alkali Division

On July 19, 2012, Georgia Gulf announced they are buying PPG Industries Chlor-Alkali and Derivatives business.

Sasol North America

Proposed Expansions

Tetramerization Unit-1 (TET-1) Anhydrous production of specific hydrocarbons Expansion on existing facility Anticipated to come on line mid 2013

Gas-to-Liquid Project Production of fuel-grade products and other hydrocarbons from natural gas Two identical phases, phase 1 - 48,000 barrels per day of fuel and phase 2 - 48,000 barrels per day of fuel Phase 1 anticipated to come on line 2016/2018 Phase 2 anticipated to come on line in 2019

Lake Charles Cracker Project (LCCP) Ethane cracker, 1.5 million tons per year of ethylene Two ethylene units Anticipated to come on line 2016/2017

Linear Alkyl Benzene Unit-(LAB-2) Expand capacity for linear alkyl benzene production

Certainteed Corp.

The Certainteed Corp. is regulated as an area source of air emissions of Vinyl Chloride Monomer and associated chemicals. The Certainteed Corp. facility released 2,540 pounds of Vinyl Chloride in 2011. During the summer of 2012, EPA issues PVC emissions control limit standards for Polyvinyl Chloride Resin facilities. The rules dealt with 17 facilities which included major sources of Vinyl Chloride emissions and two area sources, Certainteed in Calcasieu Parish and Oxy Vinyl in Deer Park,TX. The area source standards issued by EPA did not require the reduction in Vinyl Chloride emissions from process vents, stripper resins, and wastewater. The area source rules set weaker standards for additional emission points.

In June 2012, MEAN, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, Air Alliance Houston, Sierra Club and Earthjustice filed a petition with the Environmental Protection Agency for reconsideration of the new emission standards for the area sources. In response to the filing for reconsideration, EPA officials from Research Triangle Park will come to Mossville in late February or early March 2013. The EPA officials will hold meetings with the MEAN Board followed by a meeting with the public. Participation in the public meeting is critical to inform EPA of the situations in Mossville.

Environmental Protection AgencyToxic Release Inventory

Search EPA TRITRI SearchEnter Calcasieu Parish, LA for the list of all facilities reporting in Calcasieu Parish.

Data is available by facility, chemicals and releases and transfers for the years 1987-2011. Facility locations are also provided by address as well as lat. and lon.

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LA Department of Environmental QualityFiles on Industrial Facilities

Search LA DEQPunch EDMS (Electronic Data Base)Enter AI # for the industrial facility of interestAll documents associated with the industrial facility will be presented in date order. Punch any document number and you will have access to the full document.

Georgia Gulf (AI #4013)Sasol (AI #3271)Conoco Phillips (AI #2538Certainteed (AI #3063)PPG (AI # 1255)