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02488aam a2200445 i 4500 001 37B42B782DD511EEABD9262030ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230729010019 008 230728t20232023paua e b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0822966719 020 $a 9780822966715 035 $a (OCoLC)1368278048 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d PIT $d WC$ $d OCLCF $d YDX $d HQC $d HCO $d JAS $d SILO 043 $a n-us-pa 082 04 $a 363.7392 $2 23 084 $a 363.7392 $b MCP 100 1 $a McPhee, Andy, $e author. 245 10 $a Donora death fog $h [Book] : $b clean air and the tragedy of a Pennsylvania mill town / $c Andy McPhee. 264 1 $a Pittsburgh : $b University of Pittsburgh Press, $c [2023]. 300 $a xxi, 299 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 365 $a 01 $b 30.00 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "In October 1948, a fog descended on the small town of Donora, Pennsylvania. The town's main industry was steel and zinc mills -- mills that continually emitted pollutants into the air. The six-day smog event left twenty-one people dead and thousands sick. Even after the fog lifted, hundreds more died or were left with lingering health problems. Donora Death Fog details how six fateful days in Donora led to the nation's first clean air act in 1955, and how such catastrophes can lead to successful policy change. Andy McPhee tells the very human story behind this ecological disaster: how wealthy industrialists built the mills to supply an ever-growing America; how the town's residents -- millworkers and their families -- willfully ignored the danger of the mills' emissions; and how the gradual closing of the mills over the years following the tragedy took its toll on the town." -- Page 4 of cover. 650 0 $a Air $x History. $z Donora $z Donora $x History. 650 0 $a Smog $z Donora $z Donora $x History. 650 0 $a Public health $z Donora $z Donora $x History. 650 0 $a Steel-works $z Donora $z Donora $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a Air $x Pollution. 650 7 $a Public health. 650 7 $a Smog. 650 7 $a Steel-works. 650 0 $a Environmental policy. 650 0 $a Air $x History. $x Law and legislation $x History. 650 0 $a Public health laws $x History. 650 0 $a Environmental health $x History. 941 $a 2 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230902011234.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20230729010648.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=37B42B782DD511EEABD9262030ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search