Trump Just Used a $500 Million Clean Steel Grant to Fund a Coal Furnace

This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. 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 US Department of Energy had changed the scope of the previously awarded funding for Cliffs’…