Scepter Fined $3,000 by TDEC

Tennessee environmental officials have fined a Greene County firm $3,000 for exceeding the emission limits on its permit on 189 days during a period of about eight months.
In an order issued this week, Michelle Owenby, a division director in the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, imposed the fine on Scepter, Inc. The violations related to a secondary aluminum processing operation.
In the order Owenby noted that her agency had the authority to impose a fine of up to $25,000 a day for violating the terms of Scepter's conditional major operating permit. That permit was initially issued on May 12, 2010 and amended in 2016 and 2018.
That permit set temperature limits on two furnaces and capped emissions of gaseous chloride and chlorine.
According to the order issued this week emissions of hydrogen chloride on one stack exceeded the maximum allowable limit on 189 days between Sept. 6, 2018 and May 22 of this year.
Furnace temperatures exceeded the permit limits on 19 occasions between July 1, 2018 and Aug. 30, 2018, according to the order.