U.S. Steel is restarting one of two batteries damaged by a deadly explosion in August at its Clairton Coke Works. Battery No. 14 will go back online Thursday after about two months on hot idle, the ...

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ordered DTE Energy Company and three of its subsidiaries to comply with the Clean Air Act and pay a penalty of $100 million in a decision ...

In United States v. EES Coke Battery LLC, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan found three parent corporations liable for a total of $120,000,000 in penalties and ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — A federal judge ordered DTE Energy and three of its subsidiaries Tuesday to pay a $100 million penalty for violating the Clean Air Act at one of its facilities in Metro Detroit ...

When faced with testimony that Zug Island’s EES Coke Battery is one of Michigan’s worst sulfur dioxide polluters, an attorney for the facility said Monday: “So what?” The DTE Energy-owned facility was ...

A U.S. District Court judge has ordered Michigan utility giant DTE to pay a $100 million penalty for the persistent, excessive air pollution emanating from one of its subsidiary factories on Zug ...

Planet Detroit originally published this story at planetdetroit.org/2026/04/river-rouge-zug-island-pollution-meeting/. Sign ...

On Feb. 17, the Eastern District of Michigan held, after a bench trial, that indirect parent companies of EES Coke Battery LLC (EES Coke) are strictly liable as 'operators' for Clean Air Act ...

A coke battery in Michigan owned by Detroit-area power generator DTE Energy must pay a $100 million penalty for violating Clean Air Act permitting requirements, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. The ...

CLAIRTON, Pa. — U.S. Steel plans to restart one of the batteries damaged by the deadly explosion at Clairton Coke Works. Battery 14 is set to be restarted sometime in the afternoon on Thursday, ...