Clean Air Act means healthier coke production

Published May 30, 2008 4:00am ET



If Severstal decides to build a new coke plant to create fuel for its steel furnaces, it won?t be anything like the smoke-spewing beast shut down 17 years ago over environmental and health concerns.

A 1990 amendment to the federal Clean Air Act mandated that all coke-making plants nationwide comply with the standards developed by SunCoke, a division of Sunoco.

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