#Pittsburgh: US Steel departing. SalenaZito.com
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🗓️ 16 September 2023
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#Pittsburgh: US Steel departing. SalenaZito.com
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/will-the-last-steelworker-out-of-pittsburgh-please-turn-out-the-light
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI in the world, I'm John Bachelors with Selena Zito of The Pittsburgh Post |
| 0:08.4 | Gazette, the Washington Examiner of the New York Post, the steel workers. |
| 0:12.5 | Once upon a time, U.S. steel was the United States of America, the prosperity that we take |
| 0:18.3 | for granted today was built by Pittsburgh. |
| 0:22.5 | That is not an exaggeration, but we come to the end of all things. |
| 0:27.6 | The U.S. steel company is for sale. |
| 0:30.2 | Is that a bad thing, Selena, because there are jobs left in the Pittsburgh area? |
| 0:34.1 | They're not leaving, are they? |
| 0:36.8 | We actually don't know that. |
| 0:38.6 | You know, the writing on the wall for U.S. steel and I wrote about this in 2018 or 2019 |
| 0:46.0 | and you and I discussed it on the air, writing on the wall for the end of U.S. steel began |
| 0:51.0 | to slowly unravel when the local Democrat officials, Somerville, who's now a member of |
| 0:58.9 | Congress, opposed the $1 billion reef configuration of the U.S. steel plants in Braddock and Clareton, |
| 1:13.1 | they were going to invest nearly over $1 billion, almost $2 billion in making them climate |
| 1:20.8 | appropriate and they opposed it and U.S. steel said, okay, we're going to Arkansas. |
| 1:28.5 | They basically left the first steel plant built by Andrew Carnegie, the first steel plant |
| 1:37.5 | in Braddock left to just dwindle away and that is what this is coming to in this state. |
| 1:47.0 | The regulations within the county where the U.S. steel plants still sit in Clareton and |
| 1:53.9 | Braddock and Irvin are all being sort of shunned by local elected officials and you know, |
| 2:03.3 | there are other places that are saying, we'll take it in particular companies that have |
| 2:09.2 | plants in the south who want to build plants in the south and the fear is that there won't |
| 2:16.2 | be steel workers left in the city in the next couple of years. |
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