Trump: Shell’s new Pennsylvania plant will restore ‘glory’ of US manufacturing
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President Trump on Tuesday visited a massive new plant in western Pennsylvania that converts the region’s huge natural gas deposits into plastics — saying, “This would have never happened without me.”
Trump spoke at Shell’s nearly completed Petrochemicals Complex in Monaca, which will provide hundreds of jobs to the struggling region near the Ohio border.
But critics claim it also will become the largest air polluter in that part of the Keystone State, an area hit hard by manufacturing job losses and hungry for investment.
Trump said his administration was “restoring the glory of American manufacturing” and making the nation energy independent.
“We don’t need it from the Middle East anymore,” Trump said of oil and “clean, affordable, all-American natural gas,” adding that the plant’s union employees were “the backbone of this country,” sparking chants of “USA! USA!” from the plant’s workers.
Earlier, before leaving for Pennsylvania, the president blamed ocean plastic pollution on Asian nations.
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