Former residents of the West Calumet Public Housing Complex are upset with East Chicago Mayor Anthony Copeland's plans to let an industrial company move to where the housing complex once stood.

The Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority is giving workforce housing funding to build homes in a Superfund site in East Chicago.

Northern Indiana Public Service Co.'s website shows that more than 7,000 of the utility's customers were still in the dark late Tuesday morning.

The EPA cleaned up 178 residential properties and the former Carrie Gosch Elementary School during this years construction season. With that, there are 14 residential properties left to clean up, with a few to test before the end of the year.

U.S. Steel announced Friday the company will idle its East Chicago Tin mill where an estimated 150 workers could face layoffs.

U.S. Steel is planning to idle its East Chicago Tin plant, which makes tin-plated metal for uses such as food and paint cans, and lay off about 150 workers.

Members of the East Chicago Calumet Coalition Community Advisory Group have asked the EPA for months to retest the property before cleaning it up.

Residents at East Chicago, Indianas toxic Superfund site got an opportunity Wednesday to voice their concerns on the Environmental Protection Agency communication about health risks.

The EPAs Office of Inspector General wants to know how residents and government agencies feel the EPA communicated health risks from Superfund sites.

The EPA says sediment will be dredged in Hammond and East Chicago, Indiana. Work is expected to be completed in 2020.