SSINA submitted extensive comments opposing two recent proposals from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seeking to establish more stringent air emission regulations on electric arc furnace (EAF) steel manufacturing.
Specialty steel makers in the United States currently are subject to the most stringent air emission regulatory standards in the world, and SSINA members utilize state-of-the-art pollution control technology to minimize emissions of particulate matter (PM), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and other pollutants to the maximum extent feasible. Unfortunately, the two recent proposals by EPA – the “Good Neighbor” rule seeking to impose demonstrably unrealistic NOx emission limits on the EAF steel industry, and revisions to “new source performance standards” (NSPS) for EAF steel manufacturing, primarily governing PM emissions – are unjustified and deeply concerning in their lack of support factually, technologically, and on a policy basis. We urge EPA to rescind the portions of the proposed Good Neighbor rule that would apply to EAF steel mills, and to withdraw many of the proposed NSPS revisions. Further information is available from SSINA on request.
