New regulations would barely make a dent in reducing as much as 600 tons of metals and chemicals the EPA says has been emitted annually by the mills.
Kimmie Gordon grew up in a Gary neighborhood sandwiched between two of the biggest steel mills in the world. Her stepfather worked at another northwest Indiana mill along the southern tip of Lake Michigan, and she remembers how he would return home during the 1980s with his clothes and car covered in soot. Gordon didn’t think much about it until she was older and learned about toxic substances in the gunk, including heavy metals such as brain-damaging lead and cancer-causing chromium.
In response to questions from the Chicago Tribune, spokespeople for Cliffs and U.S. Steel directed a reporter to industry documents shared with the White House and EPA. In 2011, Burns Harbor and Indiana Harbor, the two northwest Indiana mills now owned by Cliffs, and U.S. Steel’s Gary Works were responsible for more than 95% of the 224 tons of unregulated toxic metals and chemicals emitted annually through the industry’s smokestacks, according to the EPA.
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