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It's because of the EPA that Pittsburgh PA now has clean air and water, and it's a nice place to live. In the old days of the steel mills burning coal (back before World War II) the air was so dirty that residents never saw the sun, they were living under a constant filthy cloud of smog.
Here's a typical daytime photo of Pittsburgh of the 1920s:
The EPA came in with fines and threats to the steel mills and other factories until they finally stopped polluting our air and our water. It changed the future of our city and Pennsylvania, and now it's a different place:
The EPA did this!
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