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...sooty materials to the atmosphere, in addition to gaseous compounds of nitrogen and sulfur oxides and a variety of toxic elements including, for example, mercury. The effluents from coal burning have a demonstrably negative effect on human health. It took a series of air pollution disasters, however, in Donora, Penn., and in London in the late 1940s and early 1950s before public opinion was aroused to a level requiring action. We learned later about the problems of acid rain and photochemical smog...
Davis’ speech touched on her personal experience as a child in the smoggy town of Donora, Penn.—where the smokestacks killed twenty people and sickened thousands more...
Davis said that for many workers, towns like Donora could be a mixed blessing. The smoke could kill you or harm your children, she said, but at the same time “smoke meant money and smoke meant jobs...