Detours: hunting pollution in steel city
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Published on Oct 16, 2013
Steel helped transform Pittsburgh into a powerhouse in the 20th century, but once the industry collapsed, it left behind a city forever changed. The dense soot cloud that hovered overhead for decades is finally breaking up, but some of the nation's worst levels of air pollution still remain.
Read the full article here: http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/16/47...
Archive.org footage:
Steel: A Symphony of Industry (1936)
http://archive.org/details/0525_Steel...
Don't Hold Your Breath (Fight For It)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryrHnK...
Earth Day 1970- A Grassroots Moment that Sparked a Movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r2UjM...
The Drama of Steel (1946)
http://archive.org/details/gov.archiv...
The New C Battery
http://www.post-gazette.com/video/?v=...
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