Metal Finishers Say CARB Deleting Key Exemption In Chrome-6 Phaseout

A metal finishing industry group is charging that California air board officials are deleting a key exemption in the board’s recently adopted rules to phase out uses of hexavalent chromium (chrome-6) at metal-plating operations, as part of 11th-hour modifications before the rules are finalized by the state’s Office of Administrative Law (OAL). “We have technology that can have zero emissions in enclosed plating tanks. The issue we see is there was an exemption in the rule and now it is...