Toxic Air in Steam Valley ─ VICE

Clairton, PA, is home to the country's largest coke manufacturing plant. It also boasts alarming childhood asthma rates. VICE's Adam Banicki met with steel workers, community members, doctors and officials to learn how the two may be connected.

WATCH NEXT: Hepatitis Country: Inside America's Opioid-Fueled Epidemic - http://bit.ly/2gKRNAo

Click here to subscribe to VICE: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE

Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/VICE-Videos
Videos, daily editorial and more: http://vice.com
More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo
Like VICE on Facebook: http://fb.com/vice
Follow VICE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/vice
Read our Tumblr: http://vicemag.tumblr.com
Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/vice
Check out our Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/vicemag
Download VICE on iOS: http://apple.co/28Vgmqz
Download VICE on Android: http://bit.ly/28S8Et0


<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }</style><div class="embed-container"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HPpNlct8Lu0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>

Watch Video on YouTube Watch Full-Window Video