{"id":248148,"date":"2024-04-02T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/the-epa-wanted-to-clean-up-steel-mills-then-a-group-of-rust-belt-senators-got-involved\/"},"modified":"2024-04-02T10:34:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T10:34:50","slug":"the-epa-wanted-to-clean-up-steel-mills-then-a-group-of-rust-belt-senators-got-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/the-epa-wanted-to-clean-up-steel-mills-then-a-group-of-rust-belt-senators-got-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"The EPA wanted to clean up steel mills. Then a group of Rust Belt senators got involved."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">In early March, a small group of Democratic senators from the Rust Belt sent President Joe Biden an urgent letter. They began by extolling the benefits of two of the Biden administration\u2019s biggest achievements, the bipartisan infrastructure law and the Inflation Reduction Act, calling them \u201chistoric investments in our nation\u2019s infrastructure\u201d that will ring in a brighter future for American manufacturing. 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