Facilities that are part of the steel production process can now temporarily avoid compliance with hazardous air pollutant rules under an executive proclamation handed down Friday.
The testing and monitoring requirements for coke ovens under former President Joe Biden aren’t “practically available” for companies to comply, according to the White House rationale. Coke ovens are coal furnaces used for carbonization in steel manufacturing.
“The Coke Oven Rule requires compliance with standards premised on the application of emissions-control technologies that do not yet exist in a commercially demonstrated or cost-effective form,” the administration said in the Friday action.
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