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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI dare anyone to ask Santorum what he knows about this
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/10/dayintech_1026<snip>
The "Donora Death Fog."
1948: An inversion layer settles over the rust belt town of Donora, Pennsylvania, trapping industrial pollution in the atmosphere. When it clears six days later, 20 people are dead, another 50 are dying and hundreds will live out their days with permanently damaged lungs.
In Donora, an industrial town situated about 20 miles south of Pittsburgh, pollution from the nearby U.S. Steel smelting plants and Donora Zinc Works was the main culprit. Trapped in a temperature inversion, the pollutants blanketed the town during the night of Oct. 26.
The companies connived with the U.S. Public Health Service to cover up the facts of the incident and succeeded in doing so for half a century. Whistle-blowers were silenced; records disappeared. It wasn't until 1994 that a full accounting of what happened in Donora was finally published.
To Philip Sadtler, an industry consultant sent to evaluate the disaster and who tried without success to expose the corporate cover-up, U.S. Steel was guilty of murder:
"The directors of U.S. Steel should have gone to jail for killing people," Sadtler said shortly before his death in 1996.
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and then let him tell me about environmental regulations
"GO FUCK YOURSELF YOU BACKWARD IGNORANT 'MORAN'"!!!
Bet he never heard about it.
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I dare anyone to ask Santorum what he knows about this (Original Post)
malaise
Feb 2012
OP
I would love for him to talk to the coal miners about black lung disease, too
livetohike
Feb 2012
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livetohike
(22,165 posts)1. I would love for him to talk to the coal miners about black lung disease, too
Since he is so big on dragging his Grandfather the coal miner into his story.
malaise
(269,237 posts)3. He won't
He doesn't know and he does not care
Hugabear
(10,340 posts)5. I think you are wrong
I think he does know - he just doesn't care.
malaise
(269,237 posts)6. I dare anyone to ask him about
the Donora Death Fog. I'm betting he never heard of it.
livetohike
(22,165 posts)11. Well if he does know about it, I'm sure he doesn't care
I wish one of these reporters who are following his campaign around would ask him anything of substance!
malaise
(269,237 posts)12. That's what I want
valerief
(53,235 posts)2. Oh, but that's the past. Must look forward, except when it involves Obama. nt
malaise
(269,237 posts)4. Were it not for regulations
That would be the present - ask China.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)7. They was sinners, obviously. nt
malaise
(269,237 posts)9. Don't rule that out
for their sick minds
spanone
(135,907 posts)8. he is so far beyond the fringe, it's scary
he's a neanderthal
malaise
(269,237 posts)10. What's even more scary is that he's leading in polls
I'm beginning to wonder what century we're living in right now