For decades, jobs in Bethlehem Steel’s coke works were among the dirtiest and hottest of any in the South Bethlehem plant. But friendships were forged even on top of the infernal batteries, w… ...

Bethlehem Steel Corp.’s decision to idle its coke ovens at Sparrows Point because of chronic pollution problems comes as the federal government turns up the heat on the nation’s steel industry ...

Bethlehem Steel will start building the caster next year. The DC furnace probably won’t be built until 1997. So the current blast and basic oxygen furnace technology (and the coke ovens) will ...

The black plume of smoke that has become Bethlehem Steel Corp.’s signature in the sky will disappear by the end of the year when the steelmaker temporarily shuts down its coke ovens to meet ...

Bethlehem Steel Corp. said it will permanently shut its coke-making ovens in Lackawanna, eliminating about 340 jobs and dealing another blow to the region’s shrinking steel industry. The company ...

For more than two decades, Donald R. Terwilliger worked as a coke oven lid man at Bethlehem Steel in Lackawanna. The job required him to work on top of the plant's massive coke oven batteries, not ...

A U.S. Steel worker walks by a series of coke ovens at the Clairton plant, in November, 2023. A new rule finalized by the EPA last month will require U.S. Steel and other companies around the ...

A new coke oven at the Sparrows Point steel mill might help the plant?s bottom line, create jobs and even generate electricity for the state but isn?t part of an initial five-year investment plan ...

A U.S. Steel worker walks by a series of coke ovens at the Clairton plant, in November, 2023. WESA's local, independent journalism is only possible because of financial support from readers like you.

Final shifts at the Redcar steel plant have emptied the coke ovens before they are irretrievably shut down. The official receiver said there was "no realistic prospect" of finding a buyer for the ...

Former British Steel coke oven workers, including 157 from Wales, who developed respiratory diseases will have their case heard in court.