Gasoline risk management: A compendium of regulations, standards, and industry practices

•The US government has authority to regulate worker and consumer exposures to gasoline.•Industry has implemented broad measures to minimize the risks from gasoline use.•Extensive risk management measures exist at all stages of the gasoline life cycle.•Highlighted are current regulatory controls and industry standards and practices.•These measures mitigate potential environmental and human health risks from gasoline. This paper is part of a special series of publications regarding gasoline toxicology testing and gasoline risk management; this article covers regulations, standards, and industry practices concerning gasoline risk management. Gasoline is one of the highest volume liquid fuel products produced globally. In the U.S., gasoline production in 2013 was the highest on record (API, 2013). Regulations such as those pursuant to the Clean Air Act (CAA) (Clean Air Act, 2012: § 7401, et seq.) and many others provide the U.S. federal government with extensive authority to regulate gasoline composition, manufacture, storage, transportation and distribution practices, worker and consumer exposure, product labeling, and emissions from engines and other sources designed to operate on this fuel. The entire gasoline lifecycle—from manufacture, through distribution, to end-use—is subject to detailed, complex, and overlapping regulatory schemes intended to protect human health, welfare, and the environment. In addition to these legal requirements, industry has implemented a broad array of voluntary standards and best management practices to ensure that risks from gasoline manufacturing, distribution, and use are minimized.