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Congressman Frank J. Mrvan announced the rescheduled Community Conversations that will be held throughout Indiana’s First Congressional District on Thursday, May 29, 2025.
The fate of a $1 billion Midwestern hydrogen hub that would include a hydrogen plant in Whiting is up in the air after a new administration took over, but U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan, D-Highland, continues the push to bring it to Northwest Indiana.
As the future of the Northwest Indiana hydrogen hub project hangs in the balance, U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan, D-Highland, questioned the energy secretary about its next steps.
Mrvan asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright Wednesday in a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development hearing about the criteria for review and status of the Northwest hydrogen hub project.
U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan, D-Highland, and U.S. Sen Jim Banks, R-Indiana, are lobbying for a massive hydrogen hub that is expected to be one of the largest construction projects in Region history if it goes forward, bringing billions of dollars in investment and employing more than 16,000 construction workers for years.
U.S. Sen. Jim Banks, R-Indiana, and Rep. Frank Mrvan, D-Highland, have sent a joint letter to the U.S. Department of Treasury, asking for the nation’s owned and operated steel industry to be preserved.
“We write to express our belief that a strong, domestically owned and operated American steel industry is vital to our national security,” said the letter to Secretary Scott Bessent. “If American steel production does not remain robust in peacetime, we risk unreliable supplies of critical steel products to the military in wartime.”
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States is now taking a second look at Nippon Steel's $14.9 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel. It has been a protracted saga that has resulted in big promises, barbed threats, extensive litigation and bipartisan political opposition.
United Steelworkers Local 1010, which represents steelworkers at the Cleveland-Cliffs Indiana Harbor Works in East Chicago, lost 10 members since President James Thomas was hired on in 1999.
"Those were 10 members who walked through those gates just like all of us do," Thomas said at a Workers Memorial Day ceremony at USW Local 1010 in Hammond's Hessville neighborhood Monday. "Those were 10 people who had families and goals, dreams and plans for the weekend who tragically were never able to walk back out."
Lake Station and federal officials marked the completion of a $1.8 million sewage lift station replacement on Wednesday.
U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan, D-Highland, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers along with city officials joined together to celebrate the completion of the Crossroads Lift Station, at 1398 Ripley St., that will add pumping capacity to the Lake Station Sanitary District during heavy rain events.
A groundbreaking was held for the Tolleston Opportunity Campus, a transformative community hub developed through a partnership between the City of Gary, Crossroads YMCA, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Northwest Indiana, and Methodist Hospitals. The Dean and Barbara White Family Foundation announced an additional $5 million commitment, bringing their total investment in the project to $15 million.
The ceremonial first shovels of dirt marked the official start of construction on the state-of-the-art facility that will serve thousands of residents across Northwest Indiana.
Community leaders, partners, and residents gathered recently to celebrate the groundbreaking of the Tolleston Opportunity Campus, a transformative community hub developed through an unprecedented partnership between the City of Gary, Crossroads YMCA, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Northwest Indiana, and Methodist Hospitals. During the ceremony, the Dean and Barbara White Family Foundation announced an additional $5 million commitment, bringing their total investment in the project to $15 million.