Steel producers in the United States are accelerating investment in technology that will reduce their carbon footprint and help them meet climate pledges, while the race to decarbonize the industry heats up across the entire value chain

Under the European Green Deal, the European Commission proposed a new EU target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared with the levels emitted in 1990

Key talking points from the Nordics regional meeting of steel distributors’ association Eurometal, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Thursday October 5

Alloy smelters in China are actively seeking state certification for “green” ferro-alloys to improve their competitiveness among steelmakers, sources told Fastmarkets this week

A new platform launched by the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) could see a collective order of 2 million short tons of green steel from major companies, propelling the North American steel industry’s decarbonization push

The gathering of early information on carbon emissions by the supply chain, and additional transparency, can create marketing opportunities for producers of battery raw materials (BRM) before such reporting is made mandatory, according to panelists at Fastmarkets’ European BRM Conference

German automaker Mercedes-Benz has signaled its preference for greener steel in the US alongside a commitment to 50,000 tonnes per year from long-time supplier Steel Dynamics Inc (SDI)

Read more about our green steel Asia differential, the region’s first green steel benchmark aimed at serving the East Asia market

The steel industry is well-equipped to meet the demand generated by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the CHIPS and Science Act (CHIPS Act), experts told Fastmarkets on the one-year anniversary of the legislations

The Global Steel Climate Council (GSCC) has launched new standards for producers that want to call their products “low carbon,” just as the US government, ready with billions of infrastructure spending to deploy, is deciding exactly what “low carbon” means