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Colonial Oil to pay $2.8 million for failure to meet clean air act fuels regulations

The Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reached a settlement today with Colonial Oil Industries Inc. that will require the company to pay a civil penalty of more than $2.8 million and spend an estimated $12.2 million to offset the detrimental human health and environmental impacts of Colonial’s alleged failure to meet obligations under the Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program and gasoline volatility standards.

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Total solar eclipse casts shadow over Dallas, United States

In what has been dubbed by the media as the “Great North American Eclipse,” Earth’s moon passed in front of our sun for roughly four minutes today in some parts of Canada, Mexico, and the United States — darkening the skies in its path and providing America with the first eclipse of its kind in nearly a decade.