Chart: US steelmaking is slowly getting cleaner
30 May 2025
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The future of steel and ironmaking in the U.S. is poised to get cleaner — so long as the country can let go of the industry’s dirty past.
All new steelmaking and ironmaking capacity in the U.S. is slated to use technologies that sidestep the need to burn coal, according to a new report from nonprofit research group Global Energy Monitor.
Steel and iron are among the most essential and widely used materials in the world. They’re also among the dirtiest to produce, responsible together for as much as 9% of global carbon dioxide emissions and a staggering amount of harmful local air pollution.
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