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MMK’s New Steel International Final EPA Permits

May 7, 2008

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.

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MMK Ohio Steel Plant Application Details

February 21, 2008

This link will take you to the Ohio EPA page for New Steel International, the working title of MMK’s proposed steel mill investment in Haverhill or Franklin, OH. Deep in the detail you will see estimates of the facility size. It’s not clear exactly how big the facility will be. The plan is to build […]

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ThyssenKrupp’s ‘clean’ Blast Furnace in Duisburg

February 11, 2008

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.

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Steel mill emissions map for the US

December 15, 2007

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 […]

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Donora Death Fog, October 26th, 1948

October 26, 2007

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.

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