The Biden administration is poised to award as much as $6.3 billion in dozens of grants to help hard-to-decarbonize industries cut emissions, according to people familiar with the matter.
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-- The money will be aimed at industries that account for nearly a quarter of US emissions, but are challenging and expensive to shift to lower-carbon technologies. Cleaning up these sectors will be critical if the White House wants to achieve its goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2030 and achieving net zero by mid-century.
Among those, Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. is proposing to make steel using hydrogen, as well as another project to expand production of the metal for electrical transformers and electric vehicle motors at its Butler Works plant north of Pittsburgh, according to one of the people. Century Aluminum Co., based in Chicago, was encouraged to proceed on at least two different proposals, including construction of the first primary smelter for the energy-intensive metal in the US in decades, the person said.
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