Green steel

Clean industry

How the essential, dirty steel industry is going green

Green hydrogen will likely play a key role in decarbonizing steel. Experts discussed the complex transition in Pennsylvania, the birthplace of U.S. steelmaking.

By Maria Gallucci . 10 April 2024
Clean industry

US pledges up to $1B for two pioneering 'green steel' projects

Steelmakers Cleveland-Cliffs and SSAB could get up to $500M each to build novel facilities that can make iron for steelmaking using hydrogen.

By Maria Gallucci . 26 March 2024
Clean industry

World's first major green steel project locks down $5B in funding

Swedish firm H2 Green Steel says construction is “well underway” at its first-of-a-kind facility. It aims to start churning out low-carbon steel in late 2025.

By Dan McCarthy, Jeff St. John . 23 January 2024
Clean industry

Chart: Here's where the carbon-intensive steel industry is concentrated

China makes half of the world's steel, and steel makes up a huge portion of the world's carbon emissions.

By Maria Virginia Olano . 27 October 2023
Clean industry

The trillion-dollar quest to make green steel

From Arkansas to the Arctic Circle, steel manufacturers are exploring ways to decarbonize the CO2-intensive steel industry.

By Maria Gallucci . 25 October 2023
Nuclear

Nucor bets on silver bullet for ‘green’ steel: Nuclear fusion

The steelmaking giant said Helion Energy would build a fusion reactor by 2030 at one of Nucor’s steel plants. But fusion is still more dream than reality.

By Eric Wesoff . 3 October 2023
Clean industry

Major steel users band together to place first big ‘green steel’ order

Microsoft, Trammell Crow, Nextracker and other companies will request 2 million tons of “near-zero-emissions” steel in push to help U.S. steelmakers decarbonize.

By Maria Gallucci . 20 September 2023
Clean industry

The world's largest low-carbon steel plant moves closer to completion

H2 Green Steel’s new $1.6 billion investment puts its hydrogen-fueled plant on track to open in 2025, in what would be a first for the hard-to-decarbonize industry.

By Jeff St. John . 8 September 2023
Clean industry

Boston Metal gets big funding boost to make green steel

Steel is a heavily polluting, hard-to-decarbonize and vital industry. The startup’s $262 million in Series C funding will help it tackle that problem.

By Maria Gallucci . 7 September 2023