City could get clean air label

After 24 years! Birmingham has always -- to me, anyway -- had a problem with ozone pollution. The city might actually manage to get off the list this year, if September goes okay. I really don't think they've done anything different, mind you, it's just luck.

The air in Birmingham is much cleaner than it used to be. Again, that's not because of any positive action. Birmingham used to be a big steel town, and steel plants put out a lot of pollutants. There's no steel industry to speak of anymore. My mother used to say that when she was a child, if she wore white it would be grey by the end of the day, just from air pollution.