It was supposed to be the United States’ grand entry to the global race to make green steel — a symbol of a return to American innovation and of revival in the nation’s rusting industrial heartland.

Instead, Cleveland-Cliffs’ plan to replace coal-based blast furnaces with cleaner, hydrogen-ready technology at its Middletown Works facility in Ohio — the same mill that Vice President JD Vance described as his grandparents’ ​“economic savior” in his ​“Hillbilly Elegy” memoir — now risks being swept away in the undercurrent of Washington’s shifting partisan tides.

From my latest piece on Canary Media:

It was supposed to be the United States’ grand entry to the global race to make green steel — a symbol of a return to American innovation and of revival in the nation’s rusting industrial heartland.

Instead, Cleveland-Cliffs’ plan to replace coal-based blast furnaces with cleaner, hydrogen-ready technology at its Middletown Works facility in Ohio — the same mill that Vice President JD Vance described as his grandparents’ ​“economic savior” in his ​“Hillbilly Elegy” memoir — now risks being swept away in the undercurrent of Washington’s shifting partisan tides.

From my latest piece on Canary Media: 
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/green-steel/cleveland-cliffs-middletown-trump

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Similar economic problems to nuclear, is that fair to say?

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Like buying solar panels but without the tax benefit?

Definitely, good comparison. High upfront costs, with good returns if you can get past that.