Please help me debunk this nonsense. I tried google and all I get is the rightwing message

[Ikonoklast]

9. Those That Assert, Must First Prove.

Tell them that a link to a reliable industry source would be acceptable, and if they cannot come up with anything except right-wing blogger bullshit sources, call them on it.

The refinery that is being shut down in St. Croix is closing because the joint owners made the decision that EPA compliance was too costly, so instead of spending the money to update the facility, Hess and Petroleos de Venezuela SA, the national oil company of Venezuala who jointly own and run that facility decided to close it.

The same rules all the other refineries must abide by, you know, the ones legally operating and NOT shutting down.

The EPA did not make that decision for them; they made it themselves.