STEM: “Donora Death Fog” by Andy McPhee
Greensburg Hempfield Area Library 237 S. Pennsylvania Avenue, Greensburg, PA, United StatesIn October 1948, a seemingly average fog descended on the tiny mill town of Donora, Pennsylvania. With a population of fewer than fifteen thousand, the town’s main industry was steel and zinc mills—mills that continually emitted pollutants into the air. The six-day smog event left twenty-one people dead and thousands […]