The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday a settlement agreement with Chevron Puerto Rico, LLC through which the company will spend some $5.2 million to improve leak detection methods and operations at some 100 Texaco service stations. The company will also pay a $600,000 penalty.
Retail sales apparently got off on the right foot this year, reflecting a 4.2 percent year-over-year increase in January, according to the latest statistics Puerto Rico Trade released Tuesday.
As the price of gasoline officially soared to more than $4 a gallon in six U.S. jurisdictions, and counting, the price for gasoline in Puerto Rico remained slightly below that threshold over the weekend.