Detours: Pittsburgh’s recovery from 20th century pollution
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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.
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Steel: A Symphony of Industry (1936)
Don’t Hold Your Breath (Fight For It)
Earth Day 1970- A Grassroots Moment that Sparked a Movement
The Drama of Steel (1946)
The New C Battery
Additional footage from “Don’t Hold Your Breath” courtesy of Group Against Smog & Pollution (GASP).d More from The Verge:
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Purely Awesome, great work!
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I went from living 30km (±22 miles) of the coast in a small city. To living 100km of coast in a bigger city. It’s not awfully polluted. But I certainly can smell the difference!
These mini documentaries are awesome.
This series is fantastic.
These videos really remind me of VICE…
Simply wow!! Love this series
Does anyone know the song starting at 00:12 sec
Acceptable air over clean air doesn’t sound good to me.
i was born in allegheny county.
I grew up in Clairton!
The Verge you are doing really great job with those documentaries!! keep on
I thought they were going to talk and show more about the technology.
Earth day? It was created by a monster who murdered his wife and composted her. Real nice, eh? Ecology? Another term by leftists to attack ANY industry they see that gives us jobs. Ever see a picture of how we get lithium for the “green” cars? Look it up sometime and tell me it’s “sustainable”.
Steel has a very small influence on the Pittsburgh community. Today we are far more focused on the future of medicine and technology with UPMC and CMU.
We are not the dirty city people see us as.
Is this what Trump voters in Pennsylvania want to go back to??? He PROMISED he will.
Pretty good documentary, though a little odd to read ‘The dense soot cloud that hovered overhead for decades is finally breaking up (-since the 1940’s?) but some of the nation’s worst levels of air pollution still remain.’
Everyone wants to have their cake and eat it too when it comes to pollution