To ease regulation on the state’s industries, the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection is phasing out a requirement for gasoline pumps to have vapor recovery systems that costs the average station $33,000.
The rubber sleeves over the gas-pump nozzle are designed to capture gasoline fumes that are released whenever a vehicle is filled with gasoline, which causes air pollution.
However, all cars and trucks manufactured since 1998 have built-in vapor recovery equipment, decreasing the need for the pump rubber sleeves, DEEP said.
The rubber sleeves have been required since 1992, but DEEP said all newly constructed gasoline station don’t need them. A station with six to eight pumps would spend $33,000 to include the sleeves on their nozzles.
