What’s next for Ohio’s former green steel project? More coal, it seems.

By: Maria Gallucci, Canary Media, Kathiann M. Kowalski, Canary Media

Outlets: Ohio Capital Journal

Published: March 27, 2026

Words: 1,885

Last Updated: 4 months ago

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This story was originally published by Canary Media.

Cleveland-Cliffs appears poised to lock its Middletown Works steel mill into using fossil fuels for at least the next two decades.

The steel manufacturer had already abandoned its plan to replace a coal-based blast furnace at the southwest Ohio plant with cleaner, hydrogen-ready technology and electric furnaces. That project, which won a $500 million federal grant during the …

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