A steel mill slag processer in Burns Harbor agreed to pay $190,860 in civil penalties for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act in a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Third-generation steelworker Don Jackson said he’s seen how mill owners weathering an economic downturn can cripple a city. In Pittsburgh in 1984, a year after Jackson graduated from high school, J&L ...

A worker loads a portable thermal battery onto a truck. The battery is charged using the waste heat from a biofuel plant and transported to an apartment block, where it provides heating for water.

The U.S. EPA is delaying standards for steel mill and coke oven emissions for about two more years. The agency previously sought strict standards for what steel mills emit, but new leadership is ...

As long as Terry Steagall can remember, the environment in his hometown of Hammond, Indiana, and the surrounding area has been poor. So Steagall, who recently retired after 41 years at a local steel ...