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Pittsburgh’s Air Pollution Estimated To Claim 3,000+ Lives Per Year − And EPA Rollbacks Aren’t Helping

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By Philip Landrigan, Ella Whitman
| Omaha Daily Record Verified
In October 1948, a thick haze rolled into Donora, Pennsylvania, a steel town in the Monongahela Valley, south of Pittsburgh. For five days, toxic fumes from a zinc smelter – a plant that turns zinc ore into pure zinc metal – poured out of the factory’s stacks, became trapped in the valley and thus blanketed Donora. The air was filled with sulfur oxides, heavy metal dust and airborne particulates. Firefighters carried 60-pound oxygen tanks door to door to relieve elderly and asthmatic victims.
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Pittsburgh’s air pollution may claim 3,000+ lives per year − and EPA rollbacks aren’t helping

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By Philip Landrigan, Ella Whitman
| Pennsylvania Capital-Star
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In October 1948, a thick haze rolled into Donora, Pennsylvania, a steel town in the Monongahela Valley, south of Pittsburgh. For five days, toxic fumes from a zinc smelter – a plant that turns zinc ore into pure zinc metal – poured out of the factory’s stacks, became trapped in the valley and thus blanketed Donora.
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Pittsburgh’s air pollution estimated to claim 3,000+ lives per year − and EPA rollbacks aren’t helping

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By Philip Landrigan, Ella Whitman
| New Pittsburgh Courier Verified
by Philip Landrigan, Boston College and Ella Whitman, University of Vermont In October 1948, a thick haze rolled into Donora, Pennsylvania, a steel town in the Monongahela Valley, south of Pittsburgh. For five days, toxic fumes from a zinc smelter – a plant that turns zinc ore into pure zinc metal – poured out of the factory’s stacks, became trapped in the valley and thus blanketed Donora. The air was filled with sulfur oxides, heavy metal dust and airborne particulates.
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