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Environmental Stewardship
Basic Principle: Community
partnerships to protect and preserve natural resources
In addition to U. S. Steel’s activities within our own operations to actively comply
with environmental rules and regulations, effectively manage our resources, and
manage greenhouse gas emissions, we also engage with community partners to protect and preserve our natural resources. These partnerships allow U. S. Steel, other manufacturers, government agencies, and community and environmental stakeholders to maximize their resources to make significant impacts on our communities.
| By partnering with other steel manufacturers
through organizations such as the American Iron and Steel Institute and the
World Steel Association, U. S. Steel is able to invest in
research and development efforts that will change the future of steel. These
partnerships have led to the establishment of the
CO2 Breakthrough Program that funds research programs, such as
those at MIT, that seek to develop new steelmaking technologies that do not
emit
CO2. They have also led to partnerships with the automotive
industry, as discussed in other sections, which help to increase fuel
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U. S. Steel has also actively partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy and the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to promote energy efficiency and environmental stewardship.
These partnerships have resulted in energy assessments performed by the Department of Energy that
resulted in more than $65 million in cost savings for the company and a reduction in
CO2 production. We are also committed to the Environmental Protection
Agency’s ENERGY STAR program and the Climate Leaders program, both of which ask
U. S. Steel to voluntarily publicize our environmental efforts to serve as a model
for other industries.
Some of the most rewarding partnerships U. S. Steel engages in are those with community and environmental stakeholders. They allow the company to make significant impacts in the areas in which we operate. One partnership that has proven to be a hallmark of environmental stewardship and community land management has been the partnership with the Freshwater Land Trust in Alabama. As a result of this partnership, U. S. Steel sold 1,100 acres on Red Mountain to the Red Mountain Greenway and Recreational Area Commission at a significantly reduced price as well as made a $1 million grant for infrastructure development. This is the largest philanthropic gift in
U. S. Steel’s history and has moved Birmingham, Ala. to the top of the nation’s ranking for public open space per resident in large cities, according to the Trust for Public Land.
These community partnerships also allow our employees to take an active and personal
part in improving the areas in which they live and work. They have included working
on the wetlands at our Clairton Plant outside of Pittsburgh, Pa.; participating in
the Hamilton Children’s Water Festival in Hamilton, Ontario; and the EKO, an
international ecological competition in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.
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