According to a lawsuit filed by the federal government in the US District Court in Hammond, US Steel violated the Clean Air Act numerous times in one case, more than 15,000 times at its Gary Works facility and two other plants in Michigan and Illinois.

The suit said that from 2008 through 2011, three violation notices have been sent to the Gary Works plant, two to the Great Lakes Works facility in Ecorse and one to the Granite City Works facility in Granite City.

Mr Jill E Ritchie, director of public policy and governmental affairs for US Steel, said in a statement that the claims made in the lawsuit are inaccurate and misleading.

The suit, which also names the state of Indiana as a plaintiff, focused on three areas of violations for the Gary Works plant.

The first focused on work that was done to the Blast Furnace No 4 in 1990. According to the lawsuit, the project was considered a major change that resulted in significant increased emissions of particle matters, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide.

The US Environmental Protection Agency tracks the levels of these and other air pollutants in Northwest Indiana and make sure they are below federal standards.

Source - Chicago Sun Times‎

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