The Jobs Have Gone, But Fallout From Industrial Pollution Still Haunts Detroit
The auto and steel industries of the last century once made Detroit, Michigan, a symbol of the U.S.’s domestic mass-production might. Yet they have left another legacy in parallel, one far more ignominious: the legacy of pollution and death, of poisons that to this day are still lacing the city’s air and water, leaching into the soil. Though Detroit has weathered a notorious population decline...