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The events at Donora drew national media attention to the
issue of air pollution. Donora's killer smog was front page
headline news in the Herald-American, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and the New York Times. Numerous agencies investigated, including the Board of Health, Kettering Laboratory,
US Public Health Service, and the PA Bureau of Industrial
View of Donora from Webster, circa 1949.
The Donora Smog Museum.
Hygiene. As a result, PA established the Division of Air Pollution Control in 1949, the Clean Streams law in 1965 and
in 1971 the Department of Environmental Resources. On the
federal level, the US Congress established the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 through passage of that year's
Clean Air Act.
Environmental awareness has taken on many forms in subsequent years, from tail pipe emissions and hair spray to acid
rain and medical waste. Today's catch phrases deal mostly
with global warming and climate change, leading some technicians to think ozone layer protection and proper refrigerant
handling are non-issues that we've already dealt with. But
there's an old saying, "Those who don't study history are
doomed to repeat it." How true that is. We must learn from
the past and educate future technicians, not just about current
refrigerant issues, but also why these rules were written in the
first place.
Author's Note: Many thanks to Brian Charlton, curator,
Donora Historical Society and Smog Museum. Visit www.donorasmog.com or the MACS Wordpress Blog to learn more!
Steve Schaeber
Manager of Service Training
You can reach Steve at
Steve@macsw.org
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of ACtion Magazine - September/October 2015
Cooling the '55 Chevy
Servicing an A6 Compressor
Cruising the Classics in California
Outlook
Leonard's Law
Virtual View
Service Port
Last Watch
Member Profile
By the Numbers
Industry News
Association News
New Products
In Memoriam
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