The findings of a recently published study by LEO member Dr. Elina Hoffmann, Dr. Valerie Karplus, and INDABA partner Dr. Chris Pistorius are discussed in this CMU news story by Monica Cooney, Communications Manager, Materials Science and Engineering, published January 20, 2026. The study "analyzes variations in operations across the global blast furnace fleet and its impact on CO 2 emissions, finding that emissions could have been reduced by as much as 9.6% globally and 15.

Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia have all the ingredients needed to be a powerhouse of industrial innovation: grid infrastructure, strong industrial bases, and the presence of research universities with deep expertise in artificial intelligence (AI), energy systems, robotics, and automation. The challenge is how to ensure the region leverages these strengths to lead in—and, importantly, benefit from—the next wave of economic opportunity, spurred by the development of ne

The outcomes of the 2025 CMU Accelerating Green Steel Workshop, co-hosted on campus from September 4-5, 2025 by the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation and the Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research, are discussed in this CMU news article by Scott Institute Communications Manager, Giordana Verrengia, published November 13, 2025. Read the story here.

Valerie Karplus just published a new discussion paper entitled Sustaining the Global Energy Transition with the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements. The paper considers the implications of high interest rates, trade tensions, and energy geopolitics for the deployment of technologies to decarbonize industries worldwide and argues for strategies that maintain momentum that are connected with objectives beyond climate alone.  View the paper here . A related LinkedIn post about

The Resilient Energy Technology and Infrastructure Consortium , led by a team at West Virginia University in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh, and over 60 regional partners, was selected on Sept. 18 as a finalist in the competition for a prestigious $160 million National Science Foundation Regional Innovation Engines award. The LEO Group is involved in supporting the group’s R&D and policy engagement efforts to grow a vibrant energy

LEO Principal Investigator Valerie Karplus presented research and facilitated a hackathon at this year's Future of Heavy Industries USA...

The Laboratory for Energy and Innovation celebrated the graduation of three newly-minted PhDs in Engineering and Public Policy at CMU’s...

This year's Summer Academy for Math and Science (SAMS) program featured a dynamic College of Engineering master class and lab tour called Into the fire: How to make iron and steel, understanding its environmental impacts. Students learned about how the steel industry affects climate change, local air pollution, and health, as well as technologies that could reduce these impacts, and brainstormed potential solutions involving policy and neighboring communities. They examined a

Research by LEO group members Jillian Miles and Valerie Karplus, co-authored with Christophe Combemale and Chris Pistorius, on the...

" Thanks to a Sustainable Technologies for Steel Manufacturing Grant from the Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST), Carnegie Mellon researchers spent the spring semester developing decarbSTEEL (Decarbonizing Steelmaking TechnoEconomic EvaLuation) , an open-source, highly customizable Excel-based framework for assessing the cost and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions of different steel decarbonization strategies.  The faculty leads were Chris Pistorius , co-directo

"The adoption of decarbonized production methods in heavy manufacturing industries is widely considered a key step toward global climate...

LEO Ph.D. student JP Pieper was awarded the Herbert L. Toor Award for his Part A research. Congratulations, JP! About the award: The...

"Over three days, investors, entrepreneurs, and researchers explored how AI and energy can complement each other." Scott Institute...

Judy’s research titled “Mortality and Distributional Effects of Air Pollution from Integrated Steelmaking in the United States” was one...

"Energy audits can be a useful tool for reducing industrial emissions, but new research co-led by Valerie Karplus found that clear...

The outcomes of the 2024 CMU Accelerating Green Steel Workshop, co-hosted on campus from November 13-14, 2024 by the Wilton E. Scott...

The year 2024 was an exciting one for the Industrial Decarbonization Analysis, Benchmarking, and Action (INDABA) Partnership, a research...

Hosted on CMU's campus by the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation and the Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research, the 2024...

Dr. Elina Hoffman presented her research at the 2024 International Energy Workshop hosted in Bonn, Germany. Visit the link below to...

Dr. Karplus's and Dr. Morgan's article for the journal Risk Analysis is the subject of this news piece published on October 25, 2024 by...