Among the things President Biden pledged during his trip to Baltimore to see the wreckage from the Francis Scott Key Bridge were moving “heaven and earth to rebuild this bridge as rapidly as humanly possible” and using “American steel.” Baltimore has a history as a giant in the steel industry; Bethlehem Steel’s Sparrows Point Mill, just south of the Key Bridge on the Patapsco River, was once the largest mill in the world, but it has been gone for years.
Biden promised a new bridge built with American steel. Could some of it come from Baltimore?
April 16, 2024