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McPhee, Andy, author.
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Air -- Pollution -- Pennsylvania -- Donora -- History.
Smog -- Pennsylvania -- Donora -- History.
Public health -- Pennsylvania -- Donora -- History.
Steel-works -- Pennsylvania -- Donora -- History -- 20th century.
Environmental policy -- United States.
Air -- Pollution -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Public health laws -- United States -- History.
Environmental health -- United States -- History.
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Donora death fog : c...
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Donora death fog : clean air and the tragedy of a Pennsylvania mill town / Andy McPhee.
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McPhee, Andy, author.
Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2023]
Subjects
Air -- Pollution -- Pennsylvania -- Donora -- History.
Smog -- Pennsylvania -- Donora -- History.
Public health -- Pennsylvania -- Donora -- History.
Steel-works -- Pennsylvania -- Donora -- History -- 20th century.
Environmental policy -- United States.
Air -- Pollution -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Public health laws -- United States -- History.
Environmental health -- United States -- History.
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9780822966715 (paperback) :
0822966719 (paperback)
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xxi, 299 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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"In October 1948, a fog descended on the small town of Donora, Pennsylvania. The town's main industry was steel and zinc mills -- mills that continually emitted pollutants into the air. The six-day smog event left twenty-one people dead and thousands sick. Even after the fog lifted, hundreds more died or were left with lingering health problems. Donora Death Fog details how six fateful days in Donora led to the nation's first clean air act in 1955, and how such catastrophes can lead to successful policy change. Andy McPhee tells the very human story behind this ecological disaster: how wealthy industrialists built the mills to supply an ever-growing America; how the town's residents -- millworkers and their families -- willfully ignored the danger of the mills' emissions; and how the gradual closing of the mills over the years following the tragedy took its toll on the town." -- Page 4 of cover.
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