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These publications showed air pollution to be one of the major global causes of premature mortality and drew attention to the human health effects of pollutants at much smaller concentrations than had been implicated in the London smog of 1952.
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2 Οκτ 2017 · 1955 — Congress passes Air Pollution Control Act, a forerunner of the Clean Air Act of 1963 and subsequent legislation. 1955 — International Air Pollution Congress held in New York City. 1956 — Another killer smog in London; 1,000 die.
5 Δεκ 2022 · The Great Smog drove British lawmakers to pass the world’s first comprehensive national air pollution law in 1956. The Clean Air Act outlawed the emission of “smoke nuisances” or “dark ...
16 Οκτ 2014 · Following this well-publicised disaster, and the Donora smog of October 1948 which had killed 20 people, concerns about health saw federal air pollution control acts passed in the United States in 1955, 1963 and 1967.
AIR POLLUTION TODAY. In 2018, 70 years after the Donora disaster, air pollution continues to be a global threat to public health. Recent news articles have highlighted air pollution challenges that remain both within the United States and throughout the world.
27 Ιουν 2024 · Summary. The Earth’s atmosphere is composed mostly of molecular nitrogen (N 2, 78 % of dry air) and molecular oxygen (O 2, 21 % of dry air). It holds also a fair amount of water vapor (H 2 O), which varies greatly in concentration (ranging from negligible in dry regions to a few % in humid regions) and leads to the formation of clouds and ...
22 Ιουν 2023 · The air in New York City was so polluted you could touch it, the New York Times reported, and “killer smog” events — short periods of heavy air pollution — were far too common.
