EMPOWERING PEOPLE

ENVIRONMENT

Trail Beautification Project

Members of U. S. Steel’s SteelSUSTAINABILITY Employee Resource Group partnered with volunteers from Wesco, the Pittsburgh Penguins, and Friends of the Riverfront to clean up and beautify the Eliza Furnace Trail section of Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Heritage Trail system. 2023 was the second year for the event, which brought together more than 100 volunteers, a significant increase in participation over the 2022 event.

Volunteers spent the day removing trash, constructing flower boxes, painting water fountains, and building a shelter for shade. Said Alex Toner, Trail Stewardship Program Manager of Friends of the Riverfront: “U. S. Steel employees have continually demonstrated the capacity to really get their hands dirty, dig in and accelerate a lot of the projects we want to get done in various parts of the trail.”

Click here to see a video of the event.

EARTH DAY ACTIVITIES: STEEL SUSTAINABILITY ERG

Every U. S. Steel facility, including USSK, held Earth Day activities in 2023.

Iron Range Earth Fest

A team of volunteers from our two Minnesota Ore Operations facilities attended Iron Range Earth Fest on April 22 the premiere sustainability event on the Range held in Mountain Iron, Minnesota.

Woodland Hills Tree Planting Event

The Pittsburgh-area chapter of U. S. Steel’s SteelSUSTAINABILITY Employee Resource Group held the first of two springtime tree planting events on April 4, 2023, at Wilkins Elementary School in the Woodland Hills School District near our Mon Valley Works — Edgar Thomson Plant. U. S. Steel employee volunteers were joined by volunteers from the Pittsburgh Penguins, Tree Pittsburgh, the Arbor Day Foundation, as well as representatives from Davey Tree. Some 75 students also dug into the event where they also learned about how to properly care for the trees, and together the group planted 23 trees that will make the school grounds more vibrant year-round. U. S. Steel provided a $20,000 donation to the event.

Northwest Indiana Earth Day Celebration

Gary Works and Midwest Plant sponsored the 2023 event at the Porter County Expo Center where our Plant Environmental team spent the day discussing operations at U. S. Steel and sharing our commitment to sustainable practices.


105 Trees Planted

1+ METRIC TON OF CO2 EMISSIONS ABSORBED EVERY YEAR, ONCE FULLY GROWN

USSK tree planting

Employees at U. S. Steel Košice marked Earth Day by organizing a tree planting near one of the plant’s entrances on April 17, 2023. Once fully grown, the 105 trees planted by our 20 employee volunteers will be able to absorb more than a metric ton of CO2 emissions every year.

U. S. Steel’s Big River Steel Works

U. S. Steel’s Big River Steel Works

Steel’s Essential Role mural
Dan Brown, Senior Vice President of Advanced Technology Steelmaking for U. S. Steel and Chief Operating Officer of Big River Steel Works, joined representatives of the National Basketball Association’s Memphis Grizzlies front-office leadership team in October 2023, to unveil an impressive new mural in the plaza outside the team’s home arena, FedEx Forum.

The mural’s message to the community, “Steel is Everywhere,” communicates that steel is a part of everyday life and is produced in an environmentally responsible way. The mural was created in partnership with Brandon Marshall, an established Memphis-area visual artist who specializes in public art with a strong focus on community engagement and mobilization.

 

Summer Camps
Big River Steel Works sponsored free summer camps at Arkansas Northeastern College Community Education. The ten camps, each with a different focus — baseball, softball, golf, cheer, basketball, robotics, art, cooking, preschool, and science — drew 160 participants.

 

Giving Thanks by Giving Meals
The “BRS Cares” initiative ran a Thanksgiving meal giveaway that served some 200 local families. It’s the fourth year Big River Steel Works has held the event.

Great Lakes clean-up

Employee volunteers from Great Lakes Works at Ecorse and River Rouge, Michigan, joined community members to clean up areas along a 28-mile stretch of the Detroit River. The annual event is sponsored by Friends of the Detroit River and has become a regular activity for Great Lakes Works employees.

$70,000 ESTIMATED RAISED THE MOST IN 23 YEARS IN THE 2023 OSCEOLA HERITAGE MUSICFEST, SPONSORED BY BIG RIVER STEEL WORKS.