Cyanide compounds
Cyanide compounds releases at Cleveland-Cliffs Steel LLC fell from 50k lb to 780 lb (98% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Cleveland-Cliffs Steel LLC
Total reported releases 1.8M lb fell sharply year over year (-50%). Total releases concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
3210 WATLING ST MAIL CODE (8-130), East Chicago, Indiana · 331110 · Primary Metals · operated by Cleveland-Cliffs INC
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds releases at Cleveland-Cliffs Steel LLC fell from 2.3M lb to 675k lb (71% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
Lead And Lead Compounds
Lead And Lead Compounds releases at Cleveland-Cliffs Steel LLC fell from 246k lb to 71k lb (71% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds at Cleveland-Cliffs Steel LLC have more than three-quarters since 2010 (through 2024).
Showing the 4 most editorially weighted signals out of 6. Lower-severity signals fold into the chemical breakdown and history charts below.
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Zinc compounds
Zinc compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Manganese And Manganese Compounds
Manganese And Manganese Compounds concentrations have fallen 34% since 2010.
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2010.
Lead And Lead Compounds
Lead And Lead Compounds concentrations have more than halved since 2010.
Ammonia
Ammonia concentrations are up 50% since 2010.
Hydrogen sulfide
Hydrogen sulfide concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2012.
n-Hexane
n-Hexane concentrations are up 52% since 2010.
Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region)
Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) concentrations have fallen 24% since 2010.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (32 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 30,753. Why we surface this →
50.4%
Low-income
87.6%
People of color
6.6%
Under age 5
14.9%
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics, population-weighted across the 3-mile buffer around this facility (from USEPA-clone/EJAM-open blockgroupstats). Indicator-level percentile and EJ-disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page — they describe wider regional exposure burdens, not effects attributable to a single facility.
Source. EPA Toxics Release Inventory · retrieved 2026-05-07. Reporting year 2024. TRI is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.
What this is not. TRI quantifies releases reported by the facility under EPCRA §313 — not ambient air or water concentrations measured at receptors. We do not attribute individual health outcomes to specific facilities; that exceeds what the data can support.