Rules Will Require Total Enclosure of Petcoke Piles and Other Environmental Protections
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—January 14, 2014. Governor Pat Quinn today announced emergency administrative rules designed to protect Illinois residents from petroleum coke (petcoke). Under the Governor’s order, the rules will be filed later this week as part of his agenda to protect Illinois’ natural resources and ensure a clean and healthy environment for future generations.
“No one should have to eat, sleep or work with harmful dust blowing into their community,”…






