don't get me wrong. That emoticon was not a happy one. the trade off is not something to be happy about. there were other problems with steel industry finances (foreign dumping, competing against modernized plants in lower wage countries) to make closure likely even without regulations. I just did not want to make a pittsburgh joke about the air and imply that it is bad now.
Now back to watching Flashdance.
It's all good ... BTW the mill in my hometown was making money. The problem was the owners made more by closing it and writing it off than they did by keeping it open ... Now back to Deerhunter.
