Smoke billows from the zinc works in Donora in this photo that’s included in a video produced at California University of Pennsylvania about the killer 1948 smog. In late October 1948, a seemingly ...

Despite its name, the Donora Smog Museum doesn’t just tell the story of the 1948 “Donora Death Fog.” It also houses an ...

The Donora Smog Disaster of 1948 has been called one of the worst air pollution disasters in the nation’s history. It caused 20 deaths and resulted in respiratory problems for at least 6,000 of Donora ...

2014-10-12T13:58:43-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/576/20141012140120003_hd.jpgBrian Charlton of the Donora Smog Museum talked about the origin of the 1948 ...

DONORA, Pa. — This week marks 75 years since the infamous “Donora Smog,” killed 21 people in the last week of October 1948. “The Donora Smog is the worst industrial air pollution accident in the ...

DONORA TO LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AND THE LESSONS THAT ARE STILL BEING LEARNED. THE END OF OCTOBER MARKS THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DONORA SMOG INCIDENT. IT’S A BIG STORY WITH IMPORTANT ...

"It was so bad," Jerry Campa, a Donora, Pennsylvania, restaurateur recalls, "that I'd accidentally step off the curb and turn my ankle because I couldn't see my feet." The acrid, yellowish gray ...

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 their ...