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El Paso Challenges Oil Refinery Permit

Inside Climate News · By Martha Pskowski · last updated
Marathon Petroleum is seeking another 10-year permit for its refinery in the middle of a low-income Hispanic neighborhood in El Paso.

By Martha Pskowski

EL PASO – Fred Borrego wants Marathon Petroleum to test the soil in his neighborhood, a district of small homes, churches and businesses around the company’s 97-year-old refinery in south-central El Paso.

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While electric-powered vehicles may be the ride of the future, oil remains at least for now the dominant fuel for transportation around the world. And after a period of time at the end of the 20th century when oil was subject to wide fluctuations in price, new supplies in North America as a result of non-conventional recovery techniques have helped stabilize prices.

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