Aug 21, 2020
Dirty fuel oil widely used to generate electricity in Mexico should be completely banned, Mexican scientist Mario Molina said, citing its high sulfur content as a danger to both human health and the earth’s atmosphere. The oil, a byproduct of the refining process, is especially prevalent in Mexico due to the inability of its aging refineries to efficiently process the country’s heavy crude. Molina is a co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his role in revealing threats to the planet’s protective ozone layer from freons, commonly found in spray cans and refrigerants.
David Alire Garcia, ‘Nobel-winning Mexican scientist calls for complete ban on fuel oil’, Reuters