WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. (AP) - Communities surrounding the Pittsburgh-area steel mill where President Barack Obama spoke Wednesday are struggling to adapt as a home-grown business is increasingly at the ...

Trailblazing group of attorneys who enforced Pa. environmental laws in 1970s looks to ‘rise again ... ‘Oh sure, we’ve got a refinery, a steel mill, a coal mine, and liquid runoff or discharges. Yeah ...

Two Trump visits span the city’s legacy industry and its higher-tech pursuits.

Aliquippa’s population has dropped from 22,000 in 1970 to 9,000 today. Duquesne Steel once hosted a 12-open-hearth furnace that ... Valley into the “most innovative steel mill in the ...

However, the experience of the US steel industry in the economic doldrums of the 1970s and 1980s shows what a painful path that can be. From 1974 to 1986, the American steel industry was mired in ...

In Pittsburgh in 1984, a year after Jackson graduated from high school, J&L Steel shuttered the 140-year-old South Side mill that sat just a mile from Jackson’s Arlington home. At its peak, ...