These links provided by Joshua Dunn.
Braddock Pennsylvania (this is the towns homepage) is the steel town that has been slowly dying since the 70's.
The coal fire underneath the town that I mentioned is Centralia PA. There are many websites that cover this town, here are a few:
http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm
http://www.xydexx.com/modernruins/centralia.htm this site has a message board
http://www.pahighways.com/features/centralia.html scroll halfway down this page and watch the you tube video
http://www.thetownthatwas.com/ A documentary about Centralia.
Times Beach was a town that poisoned itself with Dioxin trying to reduce the dust on their dirt roads. The town had to be abandoned, and after years of cleanup by the EPA and hundreds of millions of dollars its now a state park.
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/MO-TimesBeach.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Beach,_Missouri
http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/times/index.htm
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