The steel plant that saved Vance’s family from poverty is getting $500M from Biden. One worker says that ‘doesn’t really change anything’

Its future looks bright too, thanks in part to a grant of up to $500 million from the Biden administration. The federal funding “doesn’t really change anything,” said Tyler Kirby, who sat outside the steel plant on a simmering July night, eating a hamburger and waiting for the start of his 12-hour overnight shift fixing cranes. “I have not been shy about the threat that this administration’s climate agenda poses for the future of our nation’s steel production and industrial base,” he wrote to EPA Administrator Michael Regan in December, adding later, “Your administration’s aggressive prosecution of climate goals and emissions targets is already greenwashing much of the steel sector to its detriment.” Meanwhile, signs indicate that Biden’s clean energy grants and tax incentives have helped spur thousands of new jobs at more than 500 manufacturing sites across the United States. “It might work this time.” Steel plant is the ‘lifeblood’ of Middletown Middletown’s Cleveland-Cliffs plant has been churning out steel in southwest Ohio since the William McKinley administration 125 years ago. She added, “What you do here in Middletown, we’ll be looking at how we can replicate that in places all across the country.” The Cleveland-Cliffs steel plant in Middletown.