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Stephen Starr in Middletown, Ohio

Trump administration dashes hopes of anti-pollution plan for JD Vance’s home town

an exterior view of a factory
The Cleveland-Cliffs Middletown Works in Middletown, Ohio, last year. Photograph: Madeleine Hordinski for Washington Post via Getty Images

A Biden-era plan to implement a gas-powered blast furnace at a steel mill in Ohio, which would have eliminated tons of greenhouse gases from the local environment year over year and created more than a thousand jobs, has been put on hold indefinitely by the Trump administration.

Experts and locals say the setback could greatly affect the health and financial state of those living around the mill.

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