Industry Challenge To EPA Taconite Air Rule Escalates Steel Sector Fight

Lawsuits by steel makers Cleveland Cliffs LLC and U.S. Steel Corp. against EPA’s toughened air rule limiting emissions from taconite iron ore processing escalate a brewing fight between the industry and its political backers, and the Biden EPA, with further suits likely over iron and steel production and related coke ovens regulations. Both companies filed suits May 3 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, seeking review of the taconite rule that EPA published in the Federal...