Several environmental groups hosted the community conversation on Wednesday. More than 50 residents attended a community ...

On Aug. 11, 2025, an explosion at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works outside Pittsburgh — a 392-acre riverside industrial facility and the largest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere — killed two U.S.

Near the wharf, Renee Hough, a utility technician in charge of loading coke, sat in the cab of the plant’s screening station when the explosion ripped through the air, blinding her in black dust. “My ...

The Allegheny County Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to drastically decrease the allowable amount of emissions from the Clairton Coke Works plant, one of the final reforms agreed to following the ...

U.S. Steel is facing new fines levied by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as a result of findings that shed new light on why a valve ruptured at its Clairton Coke Plant in August 2025 ...

The fatal explosion last week at US Steel’s Pittsburgh-area coal-processing plant has revived debate about its future just as the iconic American company was emerging from a long period of uncertainty ...

Another lawsuit has been filed against U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel in connection with the fatal explosion at the Clairton Coke plant last year. The wife of Steven Menefee filed the lawsuit in the ...

On February 18, OSHA cited two Pennsylvania employers after a federal investigation into an August 2025 explosion at a United States Steel Corp. worksite. That explosion claimed the lives of two ...

Steelworkers cross a bridge to the the Clairton Coke Works, a U.S. Steel plant, in Clairton, Pa., Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. A federal safety agency investigating an August blast at a U.S. Steel plant ...