Public health advocates urged the Trump administration to protect residents and workers by sticking to a Biden-era timeline for reducing benzene and chromium emissions at the perimeter of steel and coke plants in Pennsylvania and other states rather than continuing to delay compliance rules.

A report released Thursday by the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project said emissions of benzene, a carcinogen, from U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works were up to eight times higher at the fenceline of its plant near Pittsburgh than a California health standard. And it said a six-month average of chromium concentrations on the fenceline of another U.S. Steel plant at Gary, Indiana, were twice as high as recommended by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment.

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