Re:Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover
by Hydraulix989 on Sunday July 23, 2017 @02:59PM
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Yes, this is why the mayor of Pittsburgh made a big public pushback on Trump's "Pittsburgh, not Paris" speech -- Pittsburgh is an example of a city that recognized the importance of breathing quality air and so was able to clean itself up from Beijing-level air quality to the modern-day green city it is today.
Short YouTube video: https://youtu.be/tbFJMgfMCAs?t=1m12s
I'll never forget, as a kid, seeing a news report on KDKA, showing a white cat with long fur. The only way to see that the fur was white, was to spread the fur and look at the base of the hairs, as the rest of the fur was an orange-pink color. This was down near J&L. (Yeah, I'm old.)
Re:Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover
by graphitezepp on Sunday July 23, 2017 @02:13PM
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Pittsburgh still is measured to have bad air quality compared to other cities, but it's certainly not bad enough that you actually notice it.
The internet is full of jaw dropping photos of Pittsburgh pre-EPA and CAA.
https://www.google.com/search?q=pittsburgh+pollution+photos&...
I was born in Pittsburgh, and I have some experience with towns in the region and other rust belt river towns. Maybe I'm biased, but I'd say that Pittsburgh, in its good parts, looks better than most in the region. Also, I'm old enough to know the benefits of the Clean Air Act on that town. Once, you could literally smell when you were getting into Pittsburgh, and the sulfur from coal burning literally made it smell like excrement! (Not exactly, but it was a smell in the same family of smells, due to the sulfur.) Today, there's not a trace of this!