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Kimmie Gordon grew up in a Gary neighborhood sandwiched between two of the biggest steel mills in the world. Her stepfather worked at another northwest Indiana mill along the southern tip of Lake Michigan, and she remembers how he would return home during the 1980s with his clothes and car covered in soot. Gordon didn’t think much about it until she was older and learned about toxic substances .