Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Comprehensive | United States Steel Corporation provides detailed transparency around its climate-related lobbying. It identifies specific policy engagements—support for “new federal industrial decarbonization programs,” the “Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub program” at the national level in the United States, participation in the “Global Arrangement on Sustainable Steel, which is being discussed between the USA and the EU,” and engagement on carbon tax policy (“Any carbon tax policy must recognize the need to avoid creating a business of carbon trading”). The company also describes multiple direct lobbying mechanisms, including “meetings and discussions with federal legislative and executive officials,” “advocating to federal legislative and executive branch officials,” “meetings and discussions with USA government officials on global steel overcapacity and industry decarbonization as it relates to the Global Arrangement talks with the EU,” and “engagement with business associations in the USA, and engagement with business associations and policy makers in the EU.” Finally, U. S. Steel clearly states the outcomes it seeks, backing the “implementation of new federal industrial decarbonization programs” and the “implementation of hydrogen hub development programs” “with no exceptions,” and calling for carbon tax policies that “encourage lowering of carbon emissions as well as encourage research into new technologies to lower the carbon footprint of the steel industry,” aligned with the Paris Agreement. | 4 |