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Bunge North America, Inc. Fact Sheet
Bunge Fact Sheet (PDF) ( 2 p, 30K, About PDF)
Bunge to Install $13 Million in Pollution Controls & Reduce Emissions by 2230 Tons per Year
- Overview
- What does the consent decree require
- Environmental Benefits
- Regional Involvement
- New Developments
- Level Playing Field
Overview
Bunge North America, Inc., and its wholly-owned
subsidiaries Bunge North America (East), L.L.C., Bunge North
America (OPD West), Inc., and Bunge Milling, Inc. (Bunge)
have agreed to resolve alleged Clean Air Act (CAA) violations.
At Bunge's eleven oilseed processing plants and a corn
germ extraction plant in Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Ohio. Each of these states
has joined with the United States as co-plaintiffs in this
settlement. The consent decree was filed with a complaint
today, alleging violations of the New Source Review/Prevention
of Significant Deterioration provisions of the CAA, as well
as State Implementation Plan and New Source Performance Standard
violations.
What does the consent decree require:
The consent decree specifies $13 million worth of
controls on all the relevant plants/emission points, state
Supplemental Environmental Projects worth $1.25 million and
the payment of a civil penalty of $625,000, divided among
the US and the states.
Environmental Benefits:
The
controls required by this consent decree will reduce Bunge's
total emissions by 2230 tons per year including reductions
of volatile organic compounds by 1,122 tons per year (tpy),
sulfur dioxide by 576 tpy, nitrogen oxides by 278 tpy, and
particulate matter by 258 tpy. Much of the volatile organic
compounds are also hazardous air pollutants, which can cause
cancer.
Regional Involvement:
Bunge owns 11 oilseed facilities, 11 soybean plants and one corn dry
mill at one of the soybean plants, in EPA Regions 4, 5, 6, and 7.
New Developments:
Bunge has agreed to use an innovative "Phenix" technology
which will allow the use of high sulfur coal, but
will produce lower emissions. These controls will
result in 250 tons of actual SO2 reductions.
Level Playing Field:
The United States has already settled enforcement
actions with Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill, the two
largest companies in this industry, as well as several smaller
companies. We intend to treat all such violators that cooperate
with us in coming back into compliance promptly with the
same equal handed response as in this Bunge settlement package.