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1 June 2017

Shenango Coke

Life Smells Better After Shenango

Julie Grant·June 1, 2017
Last year the Shenango Coke Works closed. This spring some of the people who fought it are celebrating by telling their stories of living downwind from one of the region's biggest and most visible polluters.
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