Tata Steel IJmuiden in the Netherlands faces potential closure of its coking units after paying €8.5 million in environmental fines for illegal benzene & heavy metal emissions. The Dutch parliament supports a €2 billion decarbonisation subsidy for the plant, but only if firm clean production agreements are reached. The facility's Direct Sheet Plant was also temporarily shut after chromium-6 levels exceeded safe limits. Local residents continue to demand urgent action as further penalties loom.