A new report by an environmental group says that residents in Alabama and other states could be endangered by Trump Administration changes to hazardous air pollution regulations for the steel industry.

The non-profit Environmental Integrity Project released a report called “The Steel Industry’s Hazardous Air Pollution,” which says the Trump Administration’s proposed delay or elimination of 2024 EPA hazardous air pollution control rules for the steel industry will threaten public health.

One monitor at Drummond Co.’s ABC Coke in Tarrant registered six-month average levels of benzene at the facility perimeter in 2022-2023 that were more than four times the chronic, long-term, health threshold identified in EIP’s report.

The report said ABC Coke in Tarrant was in non-compliance 2 quarter

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