Steel mill closings explored in new documentary Steven Walsh’s film, “Southeast: a City Within a City,” explores the impact of the decline of the city’s steel mills on the people who lived ...

Stout worked at the plant until it closed in 1986. According to the documentary, from 1981 to 1986, the Pittsburgh Steel Mills disappeared and 153,000 workers lost their jobs and livelihood.

The dominant way Americans make steel now is with electric arc furnaces (EAFs) that use electrical currents to melt scrap steel and other recycled metals.

Recycled steel price crosses $500 per ton threshold Steel mills in the northern U.S. have been paying $501 per ton for prompt ferrous scrap in March, according to RMDAS.

This week’s Green Sense Minute features Ines Sommer, creator of “The Hills” documentary, which tells the story of Chicago’s Southeast side and how the steel mills released contaminants ...

The blast furnace that once produced virgin steel here shut down decades ago, but the mill found a new life recycling steel, and still employs more than a thousand workers.