Portland Cement Association Supports EPA’s Removal of Emissions Limit from Good Neighbor Ozone Rule
Portland Cement Association appreciates that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has removed what it considered a technically infeasible proposed emissions limit from the final Good Neighbor Federal Implementation Plan. The rule would have required cement kilns to meet emissions standards for nitrogen oxides more stringent than standards for new kilns and would have forced cement plants to curtail production or shut down.
EPA relied on flawed data and, for the first time, included cement manufacturers among other industrial industries that would be subject to the proposed rule, despite the fact that many cement plants already utilize emissions control technology.