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Pittsburgh isn’t the environmental hellscape it was during the city’s height as a steel producer, when the air was so full of particulates that laundry hung out to dry would turn black on the line. But Pittsburgh still has serious problems, in part because the city is downwind from many Midwestern coal plants. A quarter-million residents have been diagnosed with asthma.

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