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The 2009 novel Don't Kill the Messenger by Joel Pierson features a fictional town, Wyandotte, Pennsylvania, which became a ghost town after a smog incident, based on the Donora Smog. [12] In 2023 Andy McPhee's book, Donora Death Fog: Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. [13]
The Donora Smog Museum features a collection of archival materials documenting the Donora Smog of 1948, an air inversion of smog containing fluorine that killed 20 people in Donora, Pennsylvania, United States, a mill town 20 miles south of Pittsburgh on the Monongahela River.
Donora Death Fog: Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023) Snyder, Lynn Page (1994). The Death-Dealing Smog over Donora, Pennsylvania: Industrial Air Pollution, Public Health, and Federal Policy, 1915–1963. University of Pennsylvania. Stacey, Charles (2010). Donora. Arcadia Publishing.
The modern "clean air" movement in the United States can be traced back to one small mill town in western Pennsylvania. In one brutal week in 1948, Donora's roughly 14,000 residents went about ...
Mary Ochsenhirt Amdur (February 18, 1921 – February 16, 1998) was an American toxicologist and public health researcher who worked primarily on pollution. She was charged with studying the effects of the 1948 Donora smog, specifically looking into the effects of inhaling sulfuric acid by experimenting on guinea pigs.
Smog, or smoke fog, ... or premature death. Etymology ... 30-31 October 1948, Donora, Pennsylvania: 20 died, 600 hospitalized, thousands more stricken. Lawsuits were ...
The couple took most of Justin’s original artwork with them Jan. 7 as smoke and ember clouded the sky. Left behind, though, was so much more, like antiques belonging to Toler Carr’s mother.
October. The Donora smog, an air inversion resulting in a wall of smog, killed 20 people and sickened 7,000 more in Donora, Pennsylvania, in the United States.It was a major air pollution incident in the US and was due to a combination of a specific weather pattern and pollution from industrial activity [1]