Creating Green Buffers between Neighborhoods and Oil Refineries

I'm looking for information related to creating a green buffer between a neighborhood and several oil refineries. The problem I'm having is that the majority of the articles I'm finding are either strongly biased toward environmental groups, most of whom are opposed to oil refineries entirely, or biased toward the oil refineries with very little to say on the impact on the community.

My question is, do you know of any resources offhand that deal with passive use land zoning or ways that land can be utilized in a way that benefits the community but still leaves space between the refineries and the neighborhood?