I grew up in Pittsburgh and I will tell you right now the clean up of the city had absolutely nothing to do with environmental regulation. What it have to do with is deregulation towards the importation of foreign produced steel. I remember growing up and hearing on the news about how our steel mills were closing one-by-one because they couldn't compete with the foreign producers because the foreigners charged less for their steel, which was also of a poorer quality. Instead of the steel money coming into my hometown's economy it was going to Japan and later China. This caused the city to re-evalute itself and the city successfully transitioned to a tech producer and center of medical research. If it hadn't it would be in the same situation as cities in the Midwestern rust belt. This transition is what cleaned up Pittsburgh and not anything the EPA did.


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