Steel Industry Sues EPA Over Tougher Electric Arc Furnace Air Rule

The steel sector is suing EPA over the agency’s tougher air regulations for electric arc furnaces (EAFs) used in steel recycling, which the industry says is “impermissibly retroactive” and unsupported by emissions data or legal authority, in the latest in a series of current and likely future lawsuits to be brought by steelmakers against the Biden EPA. In their suit filed Oct. 24 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the American Iron and Steel...