OTHER NEWS - March 11, 1993

Major Polluter Settles Lawsuit: Inland Steel Co., one of the nation’s worst polluters, has agreed to pay a $3.5-million fine and spend $51 million on cleanup and plant improvements. The agreement settled a 1990 lawsuit brought by the Environmental Protection Agency. Inland was accused of exceeding waste water discharge levels for heavy metals, ammonia, oil and grease, and pumping too many pollutants into the air from a boiler, coke ovens and a steelmaking shop. In 1990, the last year for which figures were available, Inland was Indiana’s worst polluter. Its East Chicago plant alone had a higher output than that of 27 states, according to the EPA.