Well, to make things even more confusing, Fawn Twp has its own department too! Comprised of...2 or 3 officers. In reality, it seems like most of these smaller departments coordinate with each other basically like they would if they were all in the same force. Which makes it even more strange that they don't just consolidate them.

I didn't say anywhere in that that it should be the same industry. I meant that they should be transitioned away from this industry to different jobs that they could reasonably do. If we have to kill off a place where people work, we should at least try to care about the people who will inevitably get left behind now that the job they've been doing for years, possibly decades, is defunct. Finding opportunities for them in jobs that won't harm the environment or other people that they'd be well-qualified for is the only thing I can think of doing that wouldn't potentially ruin their lives.

Yeah, my thoughts when people talk about "Just shut it all down!!!" is "Okay, and what do you do with the people who are now unemployed?". The obvious solution, at least imo, would be to have some kind of program in place to transition current workers at places like Clairton to a different job where they can receive paid training. Something they won't need a degree for, and something not too crazily different from their current work. You'd want to make the change as smooth and painless as possible for everyone so that the people who will inevitably whine and moan about it don't rally all the unemployed workers and their families behind them.

But of course that would require people in charge actually caring about workers at all.