EPA rollbacks push the South toward dirtier air and higher health risks
Imagine Birmingham, Alabama, before clean air laws, when the city’s steel mills and coke plants belched smoke so thick that it left the skyline in a haze and coated neighborhoods with soot. This poor air quality earned Birmingham the unsavory moniker, “Smoke City.” In rural Appalachia, coal dust settled on mining towns and unregulated chemical […]
