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As the Government Abandons Clean Energy, Green Steelmaking Advocates Look for Other Paths Forward

Increased tariffs, canceled federal funding for clean energy projects and the sale of U.S. Steel have complicated the outlook for decarbonizing the steel industry.

By Kiley Bense

U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works, an industrial plant that emits benzene, particulate matter and other pollutants, in Clairton, Pennsylvania, on an early morning in October when atmospheric conditions trapped air pollution close to the ground.

The EPA Let Companies Estimate Their Own Pollution Levels. The Real Emissions Are Far Worse.

By Lisa Song, photography by Annie Flanagan for ProPublica

EPA Drops Planned Delay in Compliance With Fenceline Monitoring at Coke Plants

By Jon Hurdle

Residents Living in the Shadow of the Steel Industry Ask the EPA to Reconsider Delay of Hazardous Air Pollution Rule

By Kiley Bense

Amid Ongoing Pollution From Steel Plants, Trump EPA Urged to Drop Delay in Fenceline Monitoring Requirements

By Jon Hurdle

‘It Didn’t Have to Be This Way’: After Another Explosion at Clairton Coke Works, Advocates Call for Accountability

By Kiley Bense

U.S. Steel Is a Major Source of Pollution in Pennsylvania. Will Its Sale Lock in Emissions for Another Generation?

By Kiley Bense

Adding up the Public Health Costs of Using Coal to Make Steel

By Kiley Bense

In the Fight to Decide the Fate of US Steel, Climate and Public Health Take a Backseat to Politics

By Kiley Bense

Biden Administration Backs Plastic as Coal Replacement to Make Steel. One Critic Asks: ‘Have They Lost Their Minds?’

By James Bruggers

The Race Is On to Make Low-Emissions Steel. Meet One of the Companies Vying for the Lead.

By Dan Gearino

When a Coke Plant Closed in Pittsburgh, Cardiovascular ER Visits Plunged

By Gina Jiménez

The Edgar Thomson Plant, part of U.S. Steel, is seen in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Credit: Dustin Franz for The Washington Post via Getty Images

‘Green Steel’ Would Curb Carbon Emissions, Spur Economic Revival in Southwest Pennsylvania, Study Says

By Jon Hurdle

Along the Monongahela River, Braddock Avenue runs between train tracks and U.S. Steel’s Edgar Thomson Works, which occupies parts of Braddock, North Braddock, East Pittsburgh and North Versailles. Credit: Quinn Glabicki/PublicSource

In Braddock, Imagining Environmental Justice for a ‘Sacrifice Zone’

By Quinn Glabicki

This Giant Truck Shows Clean Steel Is Possible. So When Will the US Start Producing It?

By Dan Gearino

Impressions of an old steel factory of Pittsburgh on July 23, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Credit: Alexandre Simoes/Borussia Dortmund via Getty Images

Toxic Metals Entered Soil From Pittsburgh Steel-Industry Emissions, Study Says

By Jon Hurdle

A worker watches as molten iron flows into a furnace for purification and alloying to become steel at the ThyssenKrupp steelworks on Jan. 13, 2010 in Duisburg, Germany. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Can the World’s Most Polluting Heavy Industries Decarbonize?

By Fred Pearce

Inside Clean Energy: From Sweden, a Potential Breakthrough for Clean Steel

By Dan Gearino

Inside Clean Energy: A Steel Giant Joins a Growing List of Companies Aiming for Net-Zero by 2050

By Dan Gearino

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