U.S. Steel has allegedly "sold off to the highest bidder to line their own pockets," according to local union presidents who now worry about their job security and livelihoods.
Third-generation steelworker Don Jackson said he’s seen how mill owners weathering an economic downturn can cripple a city. In Pittsburgh in 1984, a year after Jackson graduated from high school, J&L Steel shuttered the 140-year-old South Side mill that sat just a mile from Jackson’s Arlington home. At its peak,
Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, now running for U.S. Senate, supported carbon caps when he was mayor of Braddock and a fracking moratorium during his unsuccessful 2016 Senate campaign. Now, Fetterman balances the “existential threat” of climate change with a need for “energy security.”
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A proposed air quality permit that’s been two years in the making is dividing Mon Valley residents over whether the Edgar Thomson Works is primarily a source of good jobs or bad air. Residents, environmental activists and supporters of industry testified on these themes during a June 29 hearing for determining the plant's new federal emissions permit.