BUTLER, Pennsylvania — Sometimes political pushback works.

Seven days after Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro sent a forceful letter to Shalanda Young of the White House Office of Management and Budget, expressing his serious concern that her draft rule under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act went too far too quickly, the Department of Energy reversed course on a rule that would have led to the closure of the Cleveland-Cliffs Butler Works plant. The closure would have cost thousands of jobs in Western Pennsylvania.