EPA ‘Corrects’ Electric Steel Furnace Rule, Narrowing Scope Of Litigation

EPA is making technical “corrections” to its 2023 regulation that tightened emissions standards for electric arc furnaces (EAFs) used in steel recycling, likely narrowing the scope of a pending court challenge to that policy even as it is weighing a separate rule for integrated steel plants and faces industry protests over air limits for iron ore production. The “corrections and clarifications are being made to address unintended and inadvertent errors in the recently finalized standards,” EPA says in its interim...