Wanda Royal Torres brushes her hand across the roof of her husband’s car to show the fine, black soot that settles on her neighborhood from U.S. Steel Gary Works across the street. Steel mills in ...

Nearly 50 people gathered Tuesday evening at the Gary Public Library to share a long-standing concern: The air they breathe has contributed to serious health problems. The gathering, organized by the ...

The U.S. EPA is delaying standards for steel mill and coke oven emissions for about two more years. The agency previously sought strict standards for what steel mills emit, but new leadership is ...

Fitzpatrick lives about 43 blocks from the largest steel mill in the nation, and we found they released more pollutants than any other steel or iron mill tracked by the EPA across the country. More ...

President Trump last week cleared plans for the Japanese company Nippon Steel to buy into U.S. Steel as a partnership. The president on Friday signed an executive order that says Nippon can buy the ...

Just about three months after a partnership between Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel was finalized, some Northwest Indiana activists are asking the corporations to consider a green steel mill in Gary. In ...

Few cities in the United States have experienced a faster rise and fall than Gary, Indiana. Founded in 1906, the city is part ...

An environmental group is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over a delay in air pollution rules for steel mills, arguing it puts neighboring communities outside the gates at risk.

On either side of the impeccably refined and classically domed City Hall and courthouse buildings that make up the largely vacant civic core of Gary, Indiana, are two stark white modernist buildings.

As long as Terry Steagall can remember, the environment in his hometown of Hammond, Indiana, and the surrounding area has been poor. So Steagall, who recently retired after 41 years at a local steel ...