Why Should Delaware Care?In Spring 2025, residents and elected officials raised alarms about increased air pollution coming from the Delaware City refinery. The problem, which led to hundreds of thousands of pounds of excess sulfur dioxide emissions, occurred when pollution controls were circumvented during necessary repairs. The same thing is about to happen again over the next four weeks.
Air pollution surrounding the Delaware City Refinery is expected to spike over the next four weeks as workers at the facility repair equipment, state officials announced Thursday.
Regulators said the refinery reported that repairs to its coker carbon monoxide boiler will require it to change the way it captures gases emitted during the oil refining process…