Major US steel company backs away from plan to make green steel

Published on June 17, 2025

It was supposed to be the United States’ grand entry to the global race to make green steel — a symbol of a return to American innovation and of revival in the nation’s rusting industrial heartland. Instead, Cleveland-Cliffs’ plan to replace coal-based blast furnaces with cleaner, hydrogen-ready technology at its…

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Under Trump, Indiana and other states may decide their own coal ash rules

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A recent pact between North Dakota and the Trump administration shows how coal-friendly states could enshrine lax standards and block future federal enforcement on toxic coal ash pollution. North Dakota earned preliminary approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last month to regulate coal ash — a…

Banks reverse course and pour more money into fossil fuels

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Clean energy may be poised to attract double the investments of fossil fuels this year, but the powerful banking sector is still betting that there is lots of profit to be made in oil, gas and coal. A comprehensive report released today shows that after two years of decline in fossil fuel financing, the global banking industry reversed course in 2024, sharply increasing fossil loans and underwriti