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Cogeneration Pollutants
Granite City, IL: (May-02-08) An environmental damage lawsuit was brought by the American Bottom Conservancy and the Sierra Club against United States Steel Corp. and Gateway Energy and Coke Co., a unit of Philadelphia-based Sun-oco Inc., two companies planning a $570 million project to construct and operate a coke plant and a cogeneration facility in Granite City. The suit stated that the new coke battery, which is a set of 120 large ovens, will produce 650,000 tons of coke annually under a 15-year supply contract with US Steel. Experts said that the only byproduct in the coke-production process is hot flue gas, which will be used by the cogeneration facility to power the steel mill. The environmental suit was brought to curtail the emission of fine particle air pollution.
As part of a settlement reached in the case, United States Steel Corp. and Gateway Energy and Coke Co. agreed to use the latest pollution control technology at the $280 million cogeneration facility and $290 million coke plant, as well as agreed to fund $5 million in local projects geared toward cleaning up the air. After receiving that, the environment protection groups stated that they will not challenge any of the air pollution permits issued to the companies by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. Environmental experts stated that the agreement is significant because it places meaningful permit limits on fine particulates, a form of air pollution that can lodge deep inside a person's lungs and even end up in the bloodstream. [TRADING MARKETS: ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP REACHES AGREEMENT OVER PROJECT IN GRANITE CITY]
Published on May-6-08
As part of a settlement reached in the case, United States Steel Corp. and Gateway Energy and Coke Co. agreed to use the latest pollution control technology at the $280 million cogeneration facility and $290 million coke plant, as well as agreed to fund $5 million in local projects geared toward cleaning up the air. After receiving that, the environment protection groups stated that they will not challenge any of the air pollution permits issued to the companies by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. Environmental experts stated that the agreement is significant because it places meaningful permit limits on fine particulates, a form of air pollution that can lodge deep inside a person's lungs and even end up in the bloodstream. [
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