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The Deadly Smog Sparked A Movement for Clean Air

In 1948, a major industrial pollution event in Donora, Pennsylvania, a mill town on the Monongahela River about 25 miles from Pittsburgh, brought international attention to the harmful effects of air pollution.Emissions from two companies, the American Steel & Wire Company and U.S. Steel’s Donora Zinc Works, became trapped in...

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