Detours: Pittsburgh's recovery from 20th century pollution

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)
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Don't Hold Your Breath (Fight For It)
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Earth Day 1970- A Grassroots Moment that Sparked a Movement
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The Drama of Steel (1946)
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The New C Battery
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[@TheVideoZem]

The Verge you are doing really great job with those documentaries!! keep on

[@nyc90]

This series is fantastic.

[@johnapple200]

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.

[@frax777]

Purely Awesome, great work!

[@nortexoid]

These mini documentaries are awesome.

[@Guinhulol]

Simply wow!! Love this series

[@mediagargle3392]

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.'

[@JoostterLaak]

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!

[@davedon4616]

Everyone wants to have their cake and eat it too when it comes to pollution

[@TysonQuick]

I thought they were going to talk and show more about the technology.

[@EvanBlack11]

Does anyone know the song starting at 00:12 sec

[@WheelcraftBicycles]

I grew up in Clairton!

[@cwbh10]

These videos really remind me of VICE...

[@tshelpman123]

i was born in allegheny county.

[@MadeInMinecraft]

örr?

[@MadeInMinecraft]

Dörr?

[@erocicTheGreat]

Acceptable air over clean air doesn't sound good to me.

[@ko95]

durr?

[@daybreak777]

furr?

[@izham.]

purr?

[@69ssrszl1]

Is this what Trump voters in Pennsylvania want to go back to??? He PROMISED he will.