[Buckeye McFrog]

Whatever the reason the air is 100% better than in 1970.

I know the reason locally. We went from 20,000 steelworkers down to about 400.

[central_va]

I grew up in the DC area the horizon in the morning was brown in the summer. The auto pollution was terrible. You could feel it in your lungs and smell it everywhere when you went downtown. It really was bad. Soot film everywhere. It is not like that anymore and there are just as many cars now as back then. Like I said mission accomplished now they need to go away.

[Milton Miteybad]

I know the reason locally. We went from 20,000 steelworkers down to about 400.

It's amazing how clean your environment can be when you have no industry to speak of. Of course, that would mean you have no high-paying industrial jobs, either, but hey...life's full of little trade-offs like that. ;-)