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(KRON) -- The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) announced Thursday that its highest-ever penalty of $82 million has been assessed against Valero Refining Company over pollution violations at its Benicia refinery. The historic penalty will “benefit the Benicia area and overburdened communities around the Bay Area,” according to the district. The joint prosecution from BAAQMD and the California Air Resources Board stems from a 2019 inspection that found unreported organic emissions from the Benicia refinery’s hydrogen system. The emissions contained benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene, or BTEX, compounds. The compounds “cause cancer, reproductive harm and other toxi

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