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  • Still Fighting for Clean Air Today

    Still Fighting for Clean Air Today

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    Andy McPhee

    Donora Death Fog, Donora Smog Event
    March 27, 2017

    “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.'”

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  • Donora: The Birthplace of Clean Air

    Donora: The Birthplace of Clean Air

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    Andy McPhee

    Donora Death Fog, Donora History, Donora Smog Event
    March 20, 2017

    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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  • Temperature Inversions and Deadly Smog

    Temperature Inversions and Deadly Smog

    By

    Andy McPhee

    Donora Smog Event
    March 11, 2017

    Common to all three tragedies were two key elements. First, large factories in each area had been spewing enormous amounts of pollutants into the air, the most deadly being sulfur dioxide. And second, Mother Nature came calling in the form of something called a temperature inversion.

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  • Death in Donora

    Death in Donora

    By

    Andy McPhee

    Donora Death Fog, Donora History, Donora Smog Event
    February 3, 2017

    On Tuesday October 26, the air over Donora became foggy from cool air being trapped beneath warmer air above in what meteorologists term a temperature inversion. Normally inversions last less than a day, but this one lasted a devastating five days. Within two days the fog had turned into a stinging, yellowish-gray shroud so thick…

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