Word: armco
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Minnesota, its Mesabi Range depleted of rich iron ore by a half-century of open-pit mining, teetered on the brink of economic collapse. Then engineers devised a method of extracting iron from crushed taconite, a flintlike rock that contains some 25% iron. Reserve Mining, which is owned by Armco and Republic Steel, easily obtained dumping permits on the assumption that the gray torrent of taconite would sink 900 feet to the bottom of the lake's "Great Trough...
...When the EPA was just a week old, Ruckelshaus startled the mayors of Atlanta, Detroit and Cleveland by giving them 180 days to come up with a plan to correct water-quality violations-or else. In ensuing months, he ordered action taken against some 185 other water polluters, including Armco Steel, U.S. Steel, Koppers, U.S. Plywood-Champion, ITT Rayonier and a host of municipalities. The agency recently broke all precedent by getting a federal court order forcing 23 plants in Birmingham to cut back on production during a five-day temperature inversion that was creating dangerous air pollution. Mercury discharges...
...WILLIAM VERITY JR., president of Armco Steel...
...Hammer Blows. To call attention to its antipollution efforts, Armco Steel ran an ad showing its Ashland, Ky., plant under sootless blue skies. The headline: "Imagine a steel company giving up smoking. Imagine Armco." Potlatch Forests, Inc., a lumber company, has ads with scenes of forests and wildlife. One shows a sparkling, pine-flanked waterway over the headline: "It cost us a bundle, but the Clearwater River still runs clear." The message: Potlatch installed a filter plant to remove wood and bark deposited in the river by its Idaho logging operations...
Other protests are bound to come as industries start to fight pollution. In many cases, marginal operations might indeed be forced out of business when they have to take on the added burden of pollution safeguards. Armco Steel Corp., for example, closed eight old open-hearth furnaces in Houston rather than equip them with costly antipollution devices. This kind of shutdown can cause economic havoc. Some cases...