MMK’s planned steel mill in southern Ohio just received final permits from the Ohio EPA. You will be able to see the permits (though they’re not yet online) at the Ohio EPA site. A number of other application documents were linked to from this post back in February.
And on the subject of ThyssenKrupp, here’s a short video from DeutscheWelle (in English) describing the start up of the ThyssenKrupp number 8 blast furnace in Duisburg.
There’s a very useful Google Maps mashup from MapEcos that uses emissions data from the EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory (which has been gathering industrial emissions data from industrial facilities since 1988). You will be asked to enter a name and a zip code on the landing page link above. You can do so or just hit skip it and go to the map. Once the map has booted, enter 3312 in the second search box for the SIC code for steel. All steel facilities in the database will populate the map. Zoom in on any region and then one of the map markers and the TRI data for each facility (along with other information) will show up in the marker’s callout balloon in a series of tabs along the top of the callout.
And here’s the answer to the question “Who developed MapEcos?”: Read the rest of this entry »
Before we get too “hoity-toity” about the effects of Chinese industrial expansion on the Chinese and global environment, it’s worth being reminded of events in the not so distant past that affected industrial cities in the West and how we talked about them. Read the rest of this entry »
New User? Register here.
