The Rust Belt town of Turtle Creek lost manufacturing jobs in the 1980s. Now a clean energy company is helping the local economy regrow. When a huge Westinghouse factory shut down in a small town near Pittsburgh in the 1980s, the community was hit hard. Steel plants around the region also closed.

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