Smoke and Mirrors: Mittal Steel’s Playbook to Cover Up Their Pollution Citizens’ Audit of Mittal Steel Cleveland Works January 3, 2007 Photo by Stefanie Spear Elizabeth Ilg, Cleveland Program Director Ohio Citizen Action and Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund 614 W. Superior Ave., Suite 1200, Cleveland, Ohio 44113 (216) 861-5200 www.ohiocitizen.org
[email protected] Table of Contents Summary of Audit Findings……………………………………………………………… 3 Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………………. 3 Neighbor Testimonial, Slavic Village……………………………………………….. 4 Denise Denham and Donna Lewandowski Background……………………………………………………………………………. 5 What is the Mittal Steel Cleveland Works?.............................................................. 5-6 What does the Cleveland Works do?....................................................................... 6 What is Mittal’s Global Status?…………………………………………………..… 6-7 Blast Furnaces at Mittal Steel…………………………………………………..... 7-9 Investments at the Cleveland Works…………………………………………..... 10-11 Outdated Pollution Control Devices…………………………………………………. 12 Air Pollution and Human Health………………………………………………….. 12-14 Neighbor Testimonial, Tremont………………………………………………………. 14 Adam Harvey Swipe Sample Results…………………………………………………………….. 14-15 Air Sample Results……………………………………………………………………… 15 City Inspections and Regulations of Mittal’s Air Pollution……………………... 15-16 Results of Neighborhood Surveys.………………………………………………. 17 Neighbor Testimonial, Old Brooklyn………………………………………………….. 17-18 Ina Roth How has Mittal Steel faced up to its pollution problems