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    US Steel to pay nearly $900,000 to settle lawsuit over chromium spill into Lake Michigan

    by Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune Apr 03, 2018 3 minutes

    CHICAGO – U.S. Steel agreed Monday to pay nearly $900,000 to settle a complaint filed after one of the company's plants spilled toxic chromium into a Lake Michigan tributary last year.

    The Pittsburgh-based company also will begin testing daily for the most toxic form of chromium in water near its Midwest Plant in northwest Indiana, embark on a preventive maintenance program and upgrade other types of pollution monitoring in response

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