Steam billows out of a coking plant built in 2013 at ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, constructed as a part of the company’s strategy to modernize the steel mill.
The State Environmental Inspectorate announced on Sept. 17 that Ukraine’s largest steel company, ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, broke environmental regulations and caused $17 million worth of damage by illegally dumping waste material.
According to the inspectorate, the steel manufacturer was caught disposing of waste in a prohibited area during an unscheduled inspection in Kryvyi Rih, a city of 635,000 people located 350 kilometers southeast of Kyiv.
