Shouldn't the Donora deaths from smog back in 1948 have alerted

[malaise]

everyone about the dangers of pollution. Come Tuesday it will be 61 years since that tragedy. Why are people still fighting against clean air?
http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/heritage/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=533403

Some good articles here from the 50th anniversary back in 1998.

The Weather Channel repeated their documentary on the Donora deaths.

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[condoleeza]

1. Should have, but people just "forget"

The # of deaths related to the Hanford Reach far surpasses this, it is the gift that keeps giving. I have a friend who is one of 5 adopted children who grew up in Spokane. 4 of the children have had cancer and both of the parents died of cancer. Same with a SIL's family from Richland, not adopted, but 4 of 5 members of the family have had cancer. Both parents died of it. She remembers her Dad - who worked as a guard there - calling home to tell her Mom to go inside and close all the windows on many occasions in the 50's. It never ends.

Most cancer wards have maps where people can post their name and where they are from, as they are there for long periods of time and this is a way to possibly find a friend. In Seattle the map for the TriCities area where Hanford is is packed with pins w/peoples names on them. It is one of the most unpopulated areas in WA.

[malaise]

3. Frightening and the officials always

cover up for the corporations.

[Kievan Rus]

2. Corporate profits > clean air

We can't possibly have clean air! After all, it means the CEO of some company may have to live with only three yachts instead of five! :sarcasm:

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Described by Devra Davis in "When Smoke Ran Like Water" ...

http://www.powells.com/biblio/2-9780465015221-3

For Davis, the issue is personal: Pollution is what killed many in her family and forced some of the others, survivors of the 1948 smog emergency in Donora, Pennsylvania, to live out their lives with impaired health. She describes that episode and also makes startling revelations about how the deaths from the London smog of 1952 were falsely attributed to influenza; how the oil companies and auto manufacturers fought for decades to keep lead in gasoline, while knowing it caused brain damage; and many other battles

Click through this link http://www.ehw.org/Resources/RSRC_books1.htm and part of Powell's proceeds are donated to Environmental Health Watch!

[malaise]

5. Thanks for that link

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