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'Green Steel' Is On The Horizon. How Will It Impact Climate Change?

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A worker operates a furnace for steelmaking at Hend steel company in Arbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, in 2020. (Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images)
A worker operates a furnace for steelmaking at Hend steel company in Arbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, in 2020. (Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images)

Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with science journalist Mark Peplow about the ways the steel industry is moving toward producing less climate-changing greenhouse gases, including a project in Sweden that is preparing to make fossil-fuel-free steel commercially available in five years.

This segment aired on June 21, 2021.

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