Industry, Environmentalists File Rival Suits Over Coke Ovens Air Rule

Industry and environmental groups have filed competing lawsuits over EPA’s recently tightened air toxics rule for coke ovens used in steelmaking, with industry groups expected to challenge the rule’s cost, feasibility and underlying legal basis, while environmentalists push for a tougher rule and criticize concessions EPA made to industry. Petitioners American Coke and Coal Chemicals Institute (ACCCI) and the Coke Oven Environmental Task Force (COETF) filed suit Aug. 30 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...