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.

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

" 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...

"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...

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. 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...