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The 1948 Donora smog killed 20 people and caused respiratory problems for 6,000 of the 14,000 people living in Donora, Pennsylvania, a mill town on the Monongahela River 24 miles (39 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. The event is commemorated by the Donora Smog Museum.
724. Website. www.DonoraBoro.org. Donora is a borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States, approximately 20 miles (32 km) south of Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River. The population was 4,558 as of the 2020 census. [3] Donora was incorporated in 1901.
Oct 26, 2018 · The 1948 Donora smog was the worst air pollution disaster in U.S. history. It jumpstarted the fields of environmental and public health, drew attention to the need for industrial regulation, and...
Oct 27, 2020 · In Donora, an industrial center where massive zinc and steel wire mills had for decades poured contaminants into the air, an unusually stubborn inversion settled in on the morning of October 27...
Nov 29, 2017 · Donora High’s Dragons (the nickname intended to evoke the town’s belching smokestacks) lost a football game, 27-7 to rival Monongahela.
HISTORY. A Darkness in Donora. When smog killed 20 people in a Pennsylvania mill town in 1948, the clean air movement got its start. Edwin Kiester, Jr. November 1999. Wikimedia Commons.
Aug 29, 2023 · "On the 27th of October, 1948, a thick smog descended on the town of Donora in Pennsylvania, plunging the community into a state of semi-darkness..."As alway...
The smog that blanketed the small town of Donora, Pennsylvania in October 1948 caused at least 21 deaths and ultimately resulted in the passage of the Clean Air Act of 1963. This photo shows 9 of the 10 spelter stacks of U.S. Steel's Donora Zinc Works.
Nov 13, 2009 · Killer smog continues to hover over Donora, Pennsylvania, on October 29, 1948. Over a five-day period, the smog killed about 20 people and made thousands more seriously ill.
Nov 2, 2008 · After decades of largely remaining silent about the horrors of one of the worst air pollution disasters in American history, residents of Donor, Pa., began to open up about it.
