EPA objects to Pittsburgh coke plant permit targeted by environmentalists

EPA is formally objecting to local regulators' air permit for a Pittsburgh-area coke plant, saying it fails to ensure sufficient monitoring of emissions, a month after environmentalists sued the agency over its failure to respond to their petition seeking such an objection -- and after it separately proposed fenceline air toxics monitoring mandates for the sector. EPA in a notice scheduled for publication in the Federal Register Oct. 18 partially grants environmentalists’ petition for an agency objection to the...