‘I Simply Cannot Justify Staying Here’: Google Engineer Encourages Workers To Avoid Pittsburgh Over Air Quality Concerns

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — An article written by a local Google engineer is encouraging other workers to avoid Pittsburgh because of the air quality.The engineer, Dennis Towne, said he thought Pittsburgh would be a great place to live until he started breathing the air.
When the abandoned Nabisco plant was turned into office and condo development, it was viewed as a turning point for Pittsburgh.
Google moved in and Pittsburgh went high tech.But Towne blasted the city’s pollution in an artic