Oil Industry Warned on Environmental Image: “You...
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Oil Industry Warned on Environmental Image: “You must view ‘environment’ as a byword and not a burden,” Deputy Energy Secretary W. Henson Moore told the National Petroleum Refiners Assn. “Either we do it responsibly or those on the fringes will do it irresponsibly for us.” Moore urged a “better job at taking on public opinion,” warning that an end to domestic refineries could be a worst-case scenario. Moore praised industry research efforts to develop cleaner-burning fuels, saying they provide credibility in the debate over future fuel use.
