steel

Report shows living near a steel plant can harm your health, residents hope for change

Rebecca Thiele

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Steel and Cleveland Cliffs are in the top 10 for greenhouse gas emissions in the state and toxic releases from industrial facilities.

U.S. Steel’s sale to Nippon Steel of Japan is in doubt.

Holcomb: You can't be 'isolationist' about U.S. Steel acquisition by Japanese company

Brandon Smith

U.S. Steel has three facilities in Indiana, including its largest manufacturing plant, which is in Gary.

Both Cleveland Cliffs plants in Indiana, including this Burns Harbor facility, and the U.S. Steel plant in Gary also top the list for most toxic releases from state industrial facilities — which includes Indiana's coal plants.

Proposed steel pollution rule too strict for industry, not strict enough for residents, activists

Rebecca Thiele

A quarter of all the greenhouse gas emissions that come from Indiana industrial facilities are from steel and aluminum plants.

Report: Indiana steel, aluminum makers could lose auto businesses if they don't get greener

Rebecca Thiele

According to data from the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Steel Gary Works emits the most greenhouse gases of any industrial facility in the state.

Further details about the investigation into his death were not released.

Burial Set For Ironworker Killed At Indiana Steel Mill

Associated Press

Visitation and the funeral ceremony were planned for Sunday, The (Northwest Indiana) Times reported. Briney was working as a contractor at Cleveland-Cliffs Indiana Harbor steel mill in East Chicago. He was a father to two children.

This ancient Egyptian fragment documents their use of copper as a sterilizing agent. (Wikimedia Commons)

The Germ-Killing Power Of Copper

Walker Rhea

The ancient Egytians used copper to sterilize wounds and clean their drinking water. They even wrote about it in one of the oldest known medical texts, the Smith Papyrus, which is over four thousand years old.