Detours: Pittsburgh’s recovery from 20th century pollution

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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Archive.org footage:

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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