After a long economic decline, Hazleton, located 130 miles west of New York in anthracite coal country, lured Cargill in 2000 with generous tax breaks.
And the Germans don't burn anthracite, which is high-quality coal that doesn't produce much particulate matter, which is like the dust pollution that would be associated with smog.
Nature had given no other nation anything even remotely comparable to the four hundred and eighty square miles of anthracite in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
We eliminated all the seams and achieved a very intriguing concrete solution, which is not costly but functions cool, particularly when paired with metal anthracite lath.