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    SDI Jumps Through "Whoops" to Get Wastewater Permit for New Mill

    Written by Sandy Williams


    Steel Dynamics Inc. has overcome an environmental hurdle at its Sinton, Texas, steel mill with a new agreement concerning wastewater discharge from the facility.

    WhoopingCraneEnvironmentalists, led by the Aransas Project, opposed the wastewater permit for the facility, fearing that discharge water from the mill would contain too much metal and endanger the winter habitat of the last flock of migrating whooping cranes.

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