Environment of New York: Lackawanna Steel Company, Love Canal, Indian Point Energy Center, List of Superfund Sites in New York

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Lackawanna Steel Company, Love Canal, Indian Point Energy Center, List of Superfund sites in New York, Fresh Kills Landfill, Danskammer Generating Station, Greenpoint oil spill, Fountain Avenue, Climate of New York, Genesee Valley Conservancy, Tonawanda Wildlife Management Area, Pfohl Brothers Landfill, Zoar Valley, Department of Environmental Protection, Willow Biomass Project, Operation Wasteland. Excerpt: The Lackawanna Steel Company was an American steel manufacturing company which existed as an independent company from 1840 to 1922, and as a subsidiary of the Bethlehem Steel company from 1922 to 1983. Founded by the Scranton family, the location of the company led to the creation of the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania. When the company moved to a suburb of Buffalo, New York, in 1902, its relocation led to the founding of the town of Lackawanna, New York. It was once the second-largest steel company in the world (and the largest company outside the U.S. Steel trust). The Lackawanna River and Valley in Pennsylvania in the United States.At the beginning of the 1800s, the Lackawanna Valley in Pennsylvania was rich in anthracite coal and iron deposits. Brothers George W. Scranton and Seldon T. Scranton moved to the Lackawanna Valley in 1840 and settled in the five-house town of Slocum's Hollow (now known as Scranton) to establish an iron forge. Although Europeans had been making steel for nearly three centuries by this time, the processes for creating blister steel and crucible steel were slow and steel was extremely expensive. The Scrantons focused instead on manufacturing pig iron using a blast furnace. The Scrantons wished to take advantage of a recent technological innovation in iron smelting, the hot blast. Developed in Scotland in 1828, the hot blast preheats air before it is pumped through molten iron, subst...