But the locals of Middletown, Ohio, are jubilant.

A hulking steel plant in Middletown, Ohio, is the city’s economic heartbeat as well as a keystone origin story of JD Vance, the hometown senator now running to be Donald Trump’s vice-president.

Its future, however, may hinge upon $500 million in funding from landmark climate legislation that Vance has called a “scam” and is a Trump target for demolition.

In March, Joe Biden’s administration announced the US’s largest ever grant to produce greener steel, enabling the Cleveland-Cliffs facility in Middletown to build one of the largest hydrogen fuel furnaces in the world, cutting emissions by a million tons a year by ditching the coal that accelerates the climate crisis and befouls the air for nearby locals.

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When campaigning for the Senate in 2022, Vance said Biden’s sweeping climate bill is “dumb, does nothing for the environment and will make us all poorer,” and more recently as vice-presidential candidate called the IRA a “green energy scam that’s actually shipped a lot more manufacturing jobs to China.”

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  • nkat2112English
    50·
    2 months ago

    The damage that Couch Guyliner brought to his home state, his wife, his family - all in the name of fascism as he supports Felon Drink Bleach - is incredible for all the wrong reasons.

      • nkat2112English
        2·
        2 months ago

        You’re too kind - and I enjoy the comments you post. Have a great day!

    • djsoren19@yiffit.net
      5·
      2 months ago

      I don’t know how to break it to Ohioans, but we didn’t exactly have a high opinion of them in the first place. I don’t know if Vance is really sinking it any lower

      • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        The only Ohioans I know are ones who escaped to Washington, and they’re so glad to be out. Pretty much the same as my view on escaping from Texas.