The Stakes: how JD Vance's home town has won millions in climate investment that he calls a 'green scam'
by Oliver Milman in Middletown, Ohio from on (#6QRTW)
Locals called it a miracle' when the steel plant in JD Vance's home town got $500m for an upgrade. But Trump's running mate calls shifting the US to cleaner energy a green scam'
A hulking steel plant in Middletown, Ohio, is the city's economic heartbeat as well as a keystone origin story of JD Vance, the hometown senator now running to be Donald Trump's vice-president.
Its future, however, may hinge upon $500m in funding from landmark climate legislation that Vance has called a scam" and is a Trump target for demolition.
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