AK wants to use device to remove pollution from Dick’s Creek, Monroe Ditch
Public warning sign along Dicks Creek in Middletown. (Scott Dye/Sierra Club) MIDDLETOWN — “AK Steel is seeking a permit to use an air stripper to assist with the cleanup of Dick’s Creek and Monroe...
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MIDDLETOWN — “AK Steel Corp. will finally begin remediation of Dicks Creek, including removal of floodplain soil and sediment… Soil with contamination levels over 50 parts per million will go to a...
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AK Steel in Middletown, Ohio. photo by coalcampusa from flickr. MIDDLETOWN — “AK Steel received four notices of violations this year, most recently in September, from Hamilton County Department of...
View ArticleOhio EPA claims smoke opacity violations at AK coke plant
MIDDLETOWN — “Now that AK Steel Corp. has fixed the emissions from its Basic Oxygen Furnace at the Middletown Works, the combustion stack of the coke plant there is in alleged violation of regulations,...
View ArticleIndustry wields sway over air pollution rules, enforcement
A chemical plant looms behind a swing set in Houston. Pat Sullivan/AP Paint-eating pollution WASHINGTON, DC — “Middletown, Ohio, has lived under the cloud of AK Steel for nearly a century. The largest...
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