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October 14, 2023

From Boom to Bust: What Happened to Little Webster?

Cuddled along a bend in the Monongahela River in southwestern Pennsylvania, across from the industrial town of Donora, Webster once boasted a population of about two thousand. Anyone traveling up

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September 30, 2023

What Happens to Residents’ Health When a Coke Plant Closes?

Just south of Careopolis, Pennsylvania, the Ohio River splits at the northernmost tip of a long skinny island and joins together again about five miles later. The island, Neville Island,

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September 21, 2019

Donora, London, and the Politics of Smog

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