EPA Floats Plan To Boost Compliance With Steel Furnace Air Standards

EPA is proposing a clarification to its air rules governing electric arc furnaces (EAF) used for recycling scrap steel, in a move that will enhance compliance and cut tons of harmful particle emissions, resulting in improved public health, the agency says, as it also presses new limits on nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the sector in a separate rulemaking. In a proposal to modify its new source performance standards (NSPS) for the furnaces, published in the Federal Register May 16,...