Environmentalists Petition EPA For CWA Limits For Refiners’ Petcoke Plants

Environmentalists are petitioning EPA to identify petroleum coke (petcoke) calcining facilities at more than a dozen refineries as a source category for which Clean Water Act (CWA) effluent limitations and new source performance standards (NSPS) are required, and to promulgate such rules within three years of any finding. Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) led 11 environmental groups in submitting an Oct. 31 petition to EPA that calls for the agency, pursuant to CWA section 304(m)(1)(B), to identify petcoke calcining facilities as...