EPA coke oven rule to bring new monitoring requirements to U.S. Steel’s Clairton plantA U.S. Steel worker walks by a series of coke ovens at the Clairton plant, in November, 2023. The rule means that US Steel’s Clairton Coke Works, the largest coke plant in the U.S., will have to set up a network of air monitors to record benzene levels around the 392-acre site. For these reasons, Graves-Marcucci was relieved the EPA kept the monitoring requirement in the final rule despite industry and political pressure. Benzene monitoring requirementsThe final rule softened an initial draft of the fenceline monitoring requirements. But the final rule backed off that requirement, making the action level at 7 micrograms per cubic meter.

Source: Daily Nation June 06, 2024 22:08 UTC