BRADDOCK, United States — Nippon Steel's proposed acquisition of United States Steel has been a source of unease in Pittsburgh, where the metal once dominated the economy and still looms large in the collective psyche.
BRADDOCK, United States — Nippon Steel 's proposed acquisition of United States Steel has been a source of unease in Pittsburgh, where the metal once dominated the economy and still looms large in the collective psyche.Critics such as the United Steel workers see the transaction as the latest threat to come along in a yearslong struggle to keep the industry alive after plant closures in the 1970s and 1980s battered the American rustbelt.
'I do not miss it,' said Stankowski, who went to university after leaving steel and is now a professor at La Roche University. 'I like having clean air. I like having clean water.'Steel was well suited to western Pennsylvania, a region with waterways and an abundant supply of coal, but 'there's been a fundamental, almost tectonic shift in the geography of steel,' said regional economist Chris Briem of the University of Pittsburgh.
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