EPA TO CONSIDER ADDING MERCURY, OTHER POLLUTANTS TO CEMENT KILN MACT

July 14, 2005
EPA has agreed to consider regulating mercury emissions along with hydrocarbons and hydrogen chlorides from Portland cement kilns under the terms of a settlement it reached last month with the Sierra Club. The group sued EPA in October 2004 over the agency's failure to respond to a federal appeals court's remand of the maximum achievable control technology (MACT) air toxics rule for the kilns. The June 23 settlement requires the agency to finalize a new MACT within one year. A...


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