The symbolic votes adds Gary to a growing list of cities calling for expanded healthcare coverage and signals support for Gary Work’s future.

More than a century ago, striking steelworkers in Northwest Indiana faced off against federal troops, ultimately securing collective bargaining gains like an end to the grueling 12-hour workday and a

Direct reduction furnaces operate at lower temperatures and burn natural gas. U.S. Steel is building one of these facilities in Arkansas but says it is too costly for Gary.

Nippon Steel is opening a cleaner plant in Arkansas, but at Gary Works, it has only committed to relining blast furnace No. 14.

The Black struggle is inseparable from the story of American steel. Nippon Steel has inherited this debt. So far, it shows no intention of paying it.

At a town hall, the community raised questions about pollution and the future of Gary Works.

Activists and elected officials are urging Nippon Steel to use part of its planned $3.1 billion investment to modernize Gary Works with cleaner technology.

Activists and elected officials are urging Nippon Steel to use part of its planned $3.1 billion investment to modernize Gary Works with cleaner technology.

At a town hall, the community raised questions about pollution and the future of Gary Works.

Northwest Indiana has carried the environmental burden of creating steel for decades, Gary Councilwoman Lori Latham, D-1st, said. Now, she believes it’s time for a change in the city. “We deserve ...

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U.S. Steel announced plans to build a new direct reduced iron plant at its Big River Steel site in Osceola, expanding its northeast Arkansas operations under Nippon Steel’s $11 billion growth plan. Th...

The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...

U.S. Steel’s notoriously outdated Edgar Thomson Works handles the molten substance left behind by smelting iron ore the same way it did 150 years ago: by dumping it into slag pits. They’re...

"The words 'socialism' and 'fascism' sure give people the vapors, but lots of folks can’t seem to recognize them when they walk into the building and lick all the doorknobs," Aaron Brown writes.

EES Coke Battery's emissions exceed Clean Air Act limits, impacting areas far beyond the source, expert says.

Dropping a planned compliance break for high-polluting coal products would mark a retreat from the administration’s use of procedural shortcuts to aid industry without first gathering public input.

The facility is the city's biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions. Advocates say its dirty blast furnaces need to be replaced with cleaner technology.

In July the agency delayed the implementation of stronger emissions standards and fenceline monitoring at steel and iron facilities for two more years.

In July the agency delayed the implementation of stronger emissions standards and fenceline monitoring at steel and iron facilities for two more years.

The Cleveland Works steel mill in the Steelyards is the largest single point emitter of carbon dioxide in Cuyahoga County.

The Cleveland Works steel mill in the Steelyards is the largest single point emitter of carbon dioxide in Cuyahoga County.

The Cleveland Works steel mill in the Steelyards is the largest single point emitter of carbon dioxide in Cuyahoga County.

The U.S. Chemical Safety board is investigating an Aug. 11 explosion that killed two people and injured 10 at a U.S. Steel plant.

The Cleveland Works steel mill in the Steelyards is the largest single point emitter of carbon dioxide in Cuyahoga County.

The rules included a delay on stricter limits on methane emissions by the oil and gas industry.

Cleveland-Cliffs was awarded a federal grant last year to make its steel plant in JD Vance's hometown more environmentally friendly.

The case could be an early test of the Trump administration’s use of “interim final rules,” a procedural ploy that had previously rarely been used.

The Middletown, Ohio, plant was set to receive $500 million to make "green" steel. Then its CEO embraced President Donald Trump.