PITTSBURGH — President Donald Trump and Sen. David McCormick of Pennsylvania will jointly announce tens of billions of dollars of energy investments in the state Tuesday as the president travels to Pittsburgh for a conference with dozens of top executives to promote his energy and technology agenda.
The Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit is being held at Carnegie Mellon University, and it comes as the state’s political and business leaders are working to forge the city into a hub for robotics, artificial intelligence and energy.
Trump has repeatedly pledged U.S. “energy dominance” in the global market, and Pennsylvania – a swing state critical to his wins in 2016 and 2024 – is at the forefront of that agenda, in large part due to its coal industry that the Republican administration has taken several steps to bolster.
Neither the White House nor McCormick’s office gave breakdowns of the projects – McCormick