U.S. Secretary of Transportation Visits the Cleveland-Cliffs Toledo DR Plant - Excerpt

Cleveland-Cliffs and the United Steelworkers partnered to host Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan, and White House Deputy National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi at its Toledo Direct Reduction plant. These senior administration officials announced initiatives to promote clean manufacturing and efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Secretary Buttigieg recognized Cleveland-Cliffs’ leadership in the steel industry for its transformative investments in carbon efficient steelmaking. The Company is using the hot-briquetted iron produced in Toledo across all of its integrated blast furnace/basic oxygen furnace steel mills and electric arc furnace steel mills to significantly reduce GHG emissions.