U.S. STEEL FAILED TO TEST FOR TOXIN AFTER SPILL

U.S. Steel failed to test a Lake Michigan tributary for a potentially carcinogenic chemical after a spill from one of the company’s plants in northwest Indiana, documents show. The October spill was the second time this year the company’s Portage plant dumped chromium into Burns Waterway. Plant managers told an inspector in November they had opted not to test for the most dangerous form of the metal after that spill, according to an inspection report posted online by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, it was reported.