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  • What Happens to Residents’ Health When a Coke Plant Closes?

    What Happens to Residents’ Health When a Coke Plant Closes?

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    Andy McPhee

    Air Pollution, Donora Smog Event, History
    September 30, 2023

    The closure of Shenango Coke Works led directly to improved health for area residents.

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  • What Happened to Residents’ Health Long After the Donora Death Fog?

    What Happened to Residents’ Health Long After the Donora Death Fog?

    By

    Andy McPhee

    Air Pollution, Donora Death Fog, Donora History, Donora Smog Event, History
    October 23, 2023

    The Donora Death Fog might have killed 21 during it, but many more died from it years later.

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  • From Boom to Bust: What Happened to Little Webster?

    From Boom to Bust: What Happened to Little Webster?

    By

    Andy McPhee

    Air Pollution, Donora Death Fog, Donora History, History
    October 14, 2023

    What happened to this lovely vacation town when the Zinc Works opened in 1915?

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  • Donora, London, and the Politics of Smog

    Donora, London, and the Politics of Smog

    By

    Andy McPhee

    Air Pollution, Donora Death Fog, London Great Smog
    September 21, 2019

    After the smog cleared out of the Mon valley that deadly October 1948, after Dr. William Rongaus’s pleas for people to leave town went unheeded, after nearly 6,000 area residents had been sickened and 20 people had perished during the smog or in the immediate aftermath, a 25-person team from the nation’s Public Health Service…

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  • Air Pollution Hotspots Around the World

    Air Pollution Hotspots Around the World

    By

    Andy McPhee

    Air Pollution, Pertinent History
    June 13, 2019

    Air pollution continues to kill people around the world.

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