PUSHBACK: Mark Dixon’s Air Pollution and Climate Advocacy

“We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion…” 

– EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, March 12, 2025

Nearly lost among the tumult of the second Trump presidency is a building assault on the environment.  But most Americans areconcerned about climate change and the earth.* And some are actively defending it, like Mark Dixon.

Mark is a filmmaker and activist using documentary to explore environmental problems and solutions at the local and global levels.  At this month’s Salon, he’ll provide a deep dive into the events surrounding the 2018 fire at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works. The talk will include a discussion of his process and excepts from his upcoming film Inversion: The Unfinished Business of Pittsburgh’s Air.  After a catastrophic fire at the Clairton plant pushed the region’s air quality from bad to worse, decades of grassroots organizing come to fruition as the community rallies to assert its right to clean air.

INVERSION TRAILER 

Wednesday, April 30

6:30p  Food & Social

7:00p  Film & Discussion

WQED Conference Room

4802 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh

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