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Posted on June 7, 2017September 15, 2020

Even Cleaner Air Starts in Donora

With the EPA undergoing extensive downsizing and the Trump administration wanting to open previously protected lands to oil and shale drilling, Donora continues to remind the nation of the need for clean air.

Posted on March 27, 2017March 1, 2021

Still Fighting for Clean Air Today

"People would come to the town, and they would say, 'What’s that smell?' And people who lived here would say, 'What smell?' And my grandpa would say, 'Well, it smells like money.'"

Posted on March 20, 2017March 1, 2021

Donora: The Birthplace of Clean Air

Donora, a riverside mill town in southwest Pennsylvania, suffered a prolonged bout of concentrated, toxic smog in late October 1948, during which at least 20 people died and thousands more became ill.

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For more information on the Donora Smog visit Donora Historical Society

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Donora HIstorical Society

For more information on the Donora Smog visit Donora Historical Society

Recent Posts

  • Writing with a Painful Paw
  • How Thomas Edison’s Cement Contributed to Donora’s Storied History
  • What Donora’s Smog Plaque Gets Right … And Wrong
  • No Strikes for Mr. Donner — The Battle of Virden
  • No Strikes for Mr. Donner — The Pullman Strike
  • No Strikes for Mr. Donner — The Homestead Strike
  • Blasts From the Past
  • Founder of Donora Biked ‘High’
  • The Carnegie-Donora Connection, Part 2: Donner Vertically Integrates Donora Mills
  • The Carnegie-Donora Connection, Part 1: Frick Shows Carnegie Value of Vertical Integration
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