Trump turns $500M grant for clean steel into funding for coal furnace

Published on August 21, 2026

A $500 million Biden-era grant to decarbonize steelmaking has been refashioned by the Trump administration to upgrade a coal-fueled blast furnace in southern Ohio. On Friday, Cleveland-Cliffs confirmed that the U.S. Department of Energy had changed the scope of the previously awarded funding for Cliffs’ Middletown…

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