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Article: Pittsburgh's 'green' progress sharply debated
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- September 20, 2009
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Stumping across the region and even at the National Press Club in
Washington, Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and Allegheny County
Executive Dan Onorato remain on message: Fifteen decades of Steel
City soot and smog are gone, replaced by a "green city."
But experts and environmental activists punch holes in the
narrative, saying the term "green" is so vague that it allows cities
and corporations vying for the title to make themselves fit the
image.
It's not a simple matter to define how green a region is, some
point out, because several definitions for the term exist -- an
individual or collective carbon footprint, for example, or health of
the environment, or proliferation of green ...