A view of the skyline of Holyoke, Massachusetts, as seen from The Flats neighborhood. How Holyoke got “Trumped”   In the spring of 2024, Holyoke, Massachusetts, a former mill town struggling to rehabilitate its old factories, [i] received good news. It would receive an infusion of investment to bring in clean industrial manufacturing. In May of that year, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) granted cement maker Sublime Systems $87 million (to be matched dollar-for-dollar with private investment) to build a full-scale production facility in Holyoke. [ii] In line with the historic investment in industrial manufacturing, the plant promised to bring permanent union jobs to the town alongside hundreds of jobs for constructing the facility. [iii]     Sublime Systems was not a typical cement company.…