# 2025-12626: EPA Delays Strict Emission Rules for Polluting Coke Ovens Until 2027

2025-12626, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Coke Ovens: Pushing, Quenching, and Battery Stacks, and Coke Oven Batteries; Residual Risk and Technology Review, and Periodic Technology Review, is a Federal Register rule from Environmental Protection Agency published 2025-07-08, effective Amends compliance deadlines for certain 2024 NESHAP revisions from July 7, 2025 and January 6, 2026 to July 5, 2027. (as of 2026-06-11).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-12626
- As of: 2026-06-11
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-12626
- Title: National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Coke Ovens: Pushing, Quenching, and Battery Stacks, and Coke Oven Batteries; Residual Risk and Technology Review, and Periodic Technology Review
- Type: Rule
- Agencies: Environmental Protection Agency
- Citation: 90 FR 29997
- Published: 2025-07-08
- Effective: Amends compliance deadlines for certain 2024 NESHAP revisions from July 7, 2025 and January 6, 2026 to July 5, 2027.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-11

## In one line

EPA Delays Strict Emission Rules for Polluting Coke Ovens Until 2027

## Summary

The EPA is giving coke oven operators more time to meet new pollution rules by pushing deadlines from 2025 and 2026 to 2027. This helps companies keep the air cleaner without rushing to meet tough standards. If you run or work with coke ovens, watch for these updated deadlines and get ready to comply by mid-2027.

## Abstract

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking interim final action on revisions to the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for the Coke Oven Batteries (COB) source category and the Coke Ovens: Pushing, Quenching, and Battery Stacks (PQBS) source category by revising certain compliance deadlines for standards finalized in 2024. Specifically, the EPA is amending the compliance deadlines for certain 2024 revisions to the COB and PQBS NESHAPs from July 7, 2025 and January 6, 2026, to July 5, 2027. The EPA seeks comment on this final action and will respond to comments received and revise this final action as appropriate.

## Effects PRIA read

- Coke-Oven Deadline Extension to 2027: benefit, medium. The EPA moved compliance deadlines for certain 2024 NESHAP (coke oven) rules from July 7, 2025 and January 6, 2026 to July 5, 2027. If you run or work with coke ovens, this gives you extra time to meet the new pollution-control requirements.

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## Sources
- [2025-12626 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/07/08/2025-12626/national-emission-standards-for-hazardous-air-pollutants-for-coke-ovens-pushing-quenching-and)
- [2025-12626 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-07-08/pdf/2025-12626.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-12626 (as of 2026-06-11).