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The money will fund a greener way of making steel but won’t save the capability the UK has now.
When southeast Chicago’s steel industry collapsed, the loss reverberated through neighborhoods built around the mills. Former mill workers explain why they stayed as the local economy fell.
UK steel is known to be of high quality, but rising costs, its environmental footprint and cheap imports mean the government will need innovative solutions to save the industry.
Tata Steel layoffs in Port Talbot reveal the tension between saving jobs and saving the environment.
Electric arc furnaces can use up to 100% scrap steel as its raw material, resulting in a significant reduction in emissions.
Decarbonisation is not impossible, but it will be difficult to achieve through capitalism.
A mass die-off of crustaceans occurred on England’s north-east coast last autumn – the government’s explanation of the cause is unlikely to be true.
The Ajaokuta steel plant stands unused after 40 years of construction and US$8 billion in investment.
Carbon capture technologies have been labelled as a distraction. But as we enter the all-hands-on-deck phase of tackling climate change, they must not be ignored.
Australia’s abundant wind and solar resources mean we’re well placed to produce the hydrogen a green steel industry needs. But there are technical and economic challenges ahead.
Low-carbon alternatives for steelmaking are numerous – but which will be ready in time?
Though formed by the state, Eskom and Iscor enjoyed very little state support in their infancy. To survive, they had to cooperate with the private sector companies they were meant to compete with.
Fixes for small pieces of massive problems show that overarching crises may be less hopeless than they appear.
President Trump slapped steep tariffs on steel imports, echoing protectionist measures taken by Bush in 2002.
China’s surplus of unmarriageable men poses a stark dilemma for Xi and other leaders as they set the country’s economic course for the next five years.
The president has promised to put a stop to foreign companies ‘dumping’ steel on US markets. Former President Bush tried the same thing, and here’s what happened.
Politicians in Europe, the US and the UK have blamed steel industry woes on artificially cheap imports.
Pittsburgh’s post-industrial economic resurgence is promising, a historian of the region writes, but there’s a reason President Trump highlighted the area in his speech exiting the Paris climate deal.
Forget the sunset pictures that accompanied so much media coverage of the steel crisis. Steel is an industry of the future, not the past.
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