Tag: steelmaking
After Chemical Industry Lobbying, EPA Considers Dropping Clean Air Protections for Plastic Waste Recycling
The ExxonMobil Baytown Complex in Baytown, Texas, at dusk in 2023. The company developed what it calls advanced recycling of plastic waste involving pyrolysis in part of this complex. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News
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Labor Unions, Community, and Climate Groups Demand Hyundai Answers on Louisiana Steel Mill
ASCENSION PARISH, LA — A coalition of labor unions, community and climate groups have written to the Hyundai CEO asking the company to ensure its proposed $5.8 billion steel mill in Donaldsonville meets strong health and environmental standards, while providing quality jobs. The letter follows a meeting in the Lemann … [continued]
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What’s next for Ohio’s former green steel project? More coal, it seems.
Cleveland-Cliffs won a federal grant to install hydrogen-ready tech. Now, it wants to revamp its Middletown blast furnace, raising questions about its use of funds.
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Alberta’s Gas Price Shift
Alberta has spent years arguing that natural gas was undervalued because it was trapped in a basin with too few outlets. That argument was always partly right. The Alberta Energy Regulator says the average AECO-C price was only $1.45/GJ in 2024, down 47% from 2023’s global European Energy crisis prices, … [continued]
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From Optionality to Outcome: How Germany Can Reset Hydrogen Without Losing Face
Germany now has a pressurized segment of its hydrogen backbone that is physically complete and operationally empty. There are no connected suppliers feeding hydrogen into it, no contracted customers drawing hydrogen out, and no credible near-term pathway to change either of those facts. This is no longer a question of … [continued]
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