TY  - GEN
T1  - The Donora death fog : clean air and the tragedy of a Pennsylvania mill town
A1  - McPhee, Andrew T.
LA  - English
PP  - Pittsburgh
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1373018066
AB  - In October 1948, a seemingly average fog descended on the tiny mill town of Donora, Pennsylvania. With a population of fewer than fifteen thousand, 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 tow
OP  - 322
CN  - RA576.6.P4 M37 2023
SN  - 9780822988564
SN  - 0822988569
SN  - 9780822966715
SN  - 0822966719
KW  - Air : Pollution : Pennsylvania : Donora : History.
KW  - Public health : Pennsylvania : Donora : History.
KW  - Steel-works : Pennsylvania : Donora : History : 20th century.
KW  - SCIENCE / General
KW  - Air : Pollution
KW  - Public health
KW  - Steel-works
KW  - Pennsylvania : Donora
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
ER  -