A costly plan will keep a steel plant in JD Vance’s hometown running. Locals are aghast: ‘It’s horrible’

Fossil-fuel burning at Ohio facility could burn longer, leaving Middletown residents to face environmental risks Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox It was just a few months after moving from Louisville to Middletown, Ohio , four years ago that Vivian Adams’s six-year-old daughter’s asthma problem worsened. “My daughter was born prematurely so she already had lung issues,” she says, “[but] it’s gotten worse. She stays sick and coughing and can’t breathe.