U.S. Steel settles class action lawsuit over fire, power outages
By PATRICK VARINE
Trib Total Media
U.S. Steel officials have entered into a consent decree with the Allegheny County Health Department and two environmental groups to address a 2018 fire at its Clairton facility that crippled the plant’s pollution controls and caused power outages at the plant in 2019 and 2022. The agreement will include nearly $20 million of investment in upgrades to coke-oven gas cleaning infrastructure, $4.5 million in contributions to support local communities affected by the incidents, and the permanent idling of one of the Mon Valley Works “batteries,” which is a group of coke ovens connected by common walls.
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