US Rubber-metal company agrees EPA fine over emissions

ERJ staff report (DS)

Chicago, Illinois -- The US Environmental Protection Agency is to impose penalties of around $100 000 on A & A Manufacturing Co. Inc. on alleged clean-air violations at the company's metal and rubber products manufacturing plant in New Berlin, Wisconsin.

The EPA and A&A agreed a $79,429 penalty and two environmental projects costing $22,280. The deal resolves EPA allegations that A & A operated its plant from 1995 to the present without a state operating permit that would require the company to limit its emissions of hazardous air pollutants and volatile organic compounds.

For its first environmental project, A & A will reformulate one of its coatings to a low-volatile organic compound formula by Dec. 31. The reformulation will reduce emissions of the hazardous air pollutant toluene, total hazardous air pollutant emissions and volatile organic compound emissions.

For its second environmental project, the company will reduce toluene emissions and total hazardous air pollutant emissions by reformulating a second coating by Dec. 31, 2010.

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Press release from EPA