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Toxic Metals Entered Soil From Pittsburgh Steel-Industry Emissions, Study Says - Earth News Report
Pittsburgh’s soil is contaminated in some areas by five toxic metals emitted by historic coking and smelting from the region’s now-diminished coal and steel industry, according to a new study by geologists at the University of Pittsburgh. In a city with a history of air pollution so bad that a 19th-century writer for The Atlantic