Asbestos, once a miracle product, is now a plague on the aging infrastructure to which it's bound. Today we explore a Pennsylvania town where a wide swath of asbestos-contaminated land stands capped and unusable. Then we visit a historic high school that is now dormant due to the expense of asbestos remediation.

SHOW CLOCK

00:00 Opening Credits

00:32 Introduction

01:53 The Ambler Asbestos Waste Piles

05:33 Schenley High School

13:22 Closing Credits

CREDITS

Special thanks to Bob Kenworthy and Larkin Page-Jacons for researching this show. Additional credits available at chemheritage.org/distillations.