January 26, 2024
U.S. Steel announced Friday that it reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with two Pennsylvania environmental groups and a county health department, ending litigation alleging violations of air pollution standards stemming from a 2018 fire and subsequent pollution control system breakdowns at company plants.
March 30, 2023
A Pennsylvania health department and two environmental groups said they are trying to settle a lawsuit with U.S. Steel Corp. that was set for trial this April and alleges thousands of Clean Air Act violations after a fire extensively damaged the steelmaker's emission control equipment.
May 23, 2022
A pair of Pennsylvania environmental groups and the Allegheny County Health Department can't get a do-over on their bid for summary judgment that U.S. Steel committed thousands of violations of the Clean Air Act, a federal judge ruled Monday.
March 31, 2022
Members of environmental groups who live near three U.S. Steel facilities outside Pittsburgh must do more to link their complaints to the plants' pollution in their Clean Air Act suit, a Pennsylvania federal judge said Thursday.
January 26, 2022
U.S. Steel Corp. contended that its Pittsburgh-area facilities’ neighbors didn't have standing to sue over alleged environmental violations following a 2018 fire that knocked out a plant's pollution controls for months, arguing to a federal judge that the offending sulfur and soot could have come from other sources.
June 25, 2019
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania's health department has officially joined a lawsuit two environmental groups filed against U.S. Steel, saying Tuesday that the steelmaker's facilities outside Pittsburgh exceeded their emissions limits after a Christmas Eve fire knocked out pollution controls for several months.
April 29, 2019
U.S. Steel violated the federal Clean Air Act at three facilities outside Pittsburgh following a Christmas Eve fire last year that destroyed its ability to filter out sulfur emissions, a lawsuit by two environmental groups said Monday.