Environmental steel/update: pollution in the iron and steel industry

Book · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1977

OSTI ID:6451015

Cannon, J S; Armentrout, F S

The Council on Economic Priorities published its first analysis of the environmental impact of the nation's seven largest steel producers, Environmental Steel, in 1972. In Environmental Steel/Update, CEP again analyzes the steel industry--this time to monitor the environmental records of the same companies after four years of rapid change and intense pressure from the US EPA to attain nationwide compliance with the statutory deadlines of the Clean Air Act of 1970 (CAA) and Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 (FWPCA). These years have been marked by the expenditure of more than a billion dollars by the steel industry for pollution controls; the development of vastly expanded government steel bureaucracies to regulate polluters; the issue of guidelines and partial implementation of thousands of new pollution control regulations; the emergence of a reordered set of national environmental priorities; and, in some cases, the appearance of new environmental battlegrounds where industry, government, labor, and citizen forces are now entrenched in protracted litigation. There were few changes in the study sample between 1972 and 1976. CEP has examined the same seven companies. All 47 mills operated by these companies in 1972 remain in operation, and no new steel mills have been completed. The seven companies produced 68.4% of the industry's total output in 1971 and 69.6% in 1975.

• OSTI ID: 6451015
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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