In the Face of Most Democrats’ Opposition, US Steel Cancels a Billion-Dollar Investment
Commentary
BRADDOCK, Pa.—Exactly two years ago, U.S. Steel Corp. announced that the company would turn its Mon Valley Works operations into a key source of lightweight steel for the automotive industry.
At the time, local leaders and company officials called the investment “transformational.”
It involved a whopping $1.5 billion upgrade to the three Mon Valley Works plants, all in Pennsylvania—the Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock, the Irvin Plant in West Mifflin, and the Clairton Coke Works in Clairton—with technology and improvements that would have resulted in cleaner air for all three communities, as well as good-paying jobs providing regional prosperity for decades.