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.S. Steel fined $2.2M, required to make repairs for Midwest pollution-The 18th China(Guangzhou ) Int’l Casting product Exhibition
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U.S. Steel Corp. — without admitting wrongdoing — has agreed to pay a $2.2 million fine and spend an additional $1.9 million on facility upgrades and other environmental projects to settle alleged Clean Air Act violations with the U.S. Justice Department, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, and the states of Indiana and Illinois.
Projects the steel mill has agreed to undertake include replacing a cracked, pollution-emitting bell top on a blast furnace used for making molten iron at its Great Lakes Works facility on Zug Island; creating a vegetative buffer of trees, bushes and shrubs on public lands near high-traffic roadways in Southwest Detroit; and working with federal and state programs to replace fluorescent lights that may contain harmful polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) with non-toxic, energy-efficient lighting at schools in Southwest Detroit, Ecorse and Gary, Ind.
U.S. Steel also will spend $800,000 removing contaminated transformers at its Zug Island and Gary facilities.
-The 18th China(Guangzhou ) Int’l Casting
product Exhibition
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