Steel

Steel tariffs aren’t helping the American steel industry, or anyone else

Colin Hanna · October 7, 2019 4:00 am

The hot-strip mill is seen as a worker walks past at the U.S. Steel Granite City Works facility iin Granite City, Illinois.

White House granting more exclusions to steel and aluminum tariffs than China ones

Sean Higgins · August 21, 2019 10:30 pm

In this Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014 photo, Jesus Rodriguez grinds steel at the IDEAL Group in Detroit.

US Steel to cut nearly 200 workers at Michigan plant

Tim Pearce · August 20, 2019 3:47 pm

Rolls of steel weighing as much as 20 tons each await shipment the NUCOR Steel Gallatin plant, Wednesday, July 25, 2018, in Ghent, Ky. The plant is operating 24 hours a day to meet demand.

Supreme Court rebuffs challenge to Trump’s steel tariffs

Melissa Quinn · June 24, 2019 2:20 pm

A worker straps down a steel coil at the Borusan Mannesmann steel pipe plant in Baytown, Texas. President Trump's escalating dispute with China over trade and technology is threatening jobs and profits in working-class communities where his "America First" agenda hit home.

Energy and Environment

Democrats and Republicans join forces on bill to boost use of coal sludge to make steel

John Siciliano · May 24, 2019 10:09 pm

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin arrives at the Office of the United States Trade Representative in Washington, Friday, May 10, 2019 for trade talks between the United States and China.

Mnuchin says US is close to deal with Canada and Mexico to resolve steel and aluminum tariffs

Sean Higgins · May 15, 2019 4:18 pm

In this Wednesday, July 11, 2018, photo rolls of steel sit in a warehouse at a fabrication company in Chester, Va.

Mexico says deal may be close on steel tariffs, boosting Trump USMCA

Sean Higgins · May 15, 2019 12:32 pm

President Trump listens during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Friday, May 3, 2019.

Trump still doesn’t get free trade

Washington Examiner · May 8, 2019 4:00 am

In this 2015 file photo, a worker stands outside the U.S. Steel Corp. coke plant, part of the company's complex in Granite City, Ill.

Trump takes credit for $1 billion US Steel investment

Sean Higgins · May 2, 2019 10:38 pm

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks.

Energy and Environment

Mayor Bill de Blasio: NYC is going to ban 'glass and steel skyscrapers'

Julio Rosas · April 22, 2019 11:32 am

** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND APRIL 30-May 1 ** In this undated photo provided ConocoPhillips, two ConocoPhillips emploees overlook pipelines on the West Sak oil field on Alaska's North Slope. BP and ConocoPhillips are betting that heavy oil in Alaska will result in a big payoff. Heavy oil, which has the consistency of thick molasses instead of olive oil, lies in sandstone above the huge reservoir of North Slope light oil that has been flowing down the trans-Alaska pipeline since 1977. With that reservoir being drawn down, the Texas-based companies are turning to hard-to-pump heavy oil to extend the life of the oil fields. (AP Photo/ConocoPhillips, Judy Patrick)

Energy and Environment

Trump’s North American trade agreement will promote US energy leadership

Washington Examiner · April 19, 2019 4:00 am

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee walks to chair a hearing on drug prices, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Chuck Grassley says Trump won’t lift steel and aluminum tariffs

Colin Wilhelm and Sean Higgins · March 27, 2019 6:53 pm