There is a tendency in the US to want to name “large projects” after large projects of the past, so the new Marshall Plan (the old one re-built post-war Europe) is being used to describe a $1.24 trillion investment in the old fossil fuel loving mid-west, in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia, as well as western parts of Pennsylvania around Pittsburgh. It is being called the “Marshall Plan for Middle America,” or MP4MA for short. The plan suggests that $60 billion a year of total investment for ten years would be needed initially, then about half that for each of the next 20 years. It is a plan brought together by a task force which is led by the Center…