Local Steel Experts Say US Steel’s Decision To Drop $1.5 Billion Mon Valley Project Makes Sense

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – On Friday, U.S. Steel announced that it is abandoning its $1.5 billion project to upgrade its steelmaking in the Mon Valley.
Local experts think this could be part of the company’s pledge earlier this month to go carbon free by 2050.
“It does produce a lot of CO2 though,” explains Professor Christ Pistorius, co-director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research.
“To make one ton of steel, you produce almost tw