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The 1966 New York City smog was a major air-pollution episode and environmental disaster, coinciding with that year's Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Smog covered the city and its surrounding area from November 23 to 26, filling the city's air with damaging levels of several toxic pollutants. It was the third major smog in New York City, following events of similar scale in 1953 and 1963.

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  • The 1966 New York City smog was a major air-pollution episode and environmental disaster, coinciding with that year's Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Smog covered the city and its surrounding area from November 23 to 26, filling the city's air with damaging levels of several toxic pollutants. It was the third major smog in New York City, following events of similar scale in 1953 and 1963. On November 23, a large mass of stagnant air over the East Coast trapped pollutants in the city's air. For three days, New York City was engulfed in dangerously high levels of carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, smoke, and haze. Pockets of air pollution pervaded the greater New York metropolitan area, including parts of New Jersey and Connecticut. By November 25, the smog became severe enough that regional leaders announced a "first-stage alert". During the alert, leaders of local and state governments asked residents and industry to take voluntary steps to minimize emissions. Health officials advised people with respiratory or heart conditions to remain indoors. The city shut off garbage incinerators, requiring massive hauling of garbage to landfills. A cold front dispersed the smog on November 26, and the alert ended. In the months that followed, medical researchers studied the smog's impact on health. City officials initially maintained that the smog had not caused any deaths, but it soon became clear that the smog had significantly harmed public health. A study published in December 1966 estimated that 10% of the city's population had suffered adverse health effects, such as stinging eyes, coughing, and respiratory distress. A statistical analysis published in October 1967 found that 168 deaths had likely been caused by the smog. The smog catalyzed greater national awareness of air pollution as a serious health problem and a political issue. The government of New York City updated local laws on air-pollution control. Prompted by the smog, President Lyndon B. Johnson and members of Congress worked to pass federal legislation regulating air pollution in the United States, culminating in the 1967 Air Quality Act and the 1970 Clean Air Act. The extent of harms from subsequent pollution events, including the health effects of pollution from the September 11 attacks and incidents of pollution in China, have been judged by reference to the 1966 smog in New York. (en)
  • Le smog de New York en 1966 est un événement notable de pollution atmosphérique, avec des niveaux importants de monoxyde de carbone, de dioxyde de soufre, de fumée et de brume. Le smog couvre la ville de New York du 23 au 26 novembre, ce qui correspond au week-end de la fête de Thanksgiving. Il s'agit du troisième événement de smog majeur dans la ville, à la suite d'événements de même ampleur en 1953 et 1963. Le 23 novembre, une grande masse d'air stagnant au-dessus de la côte est des États-Unis piège des polluants dans l'air de la ville. Pendant trois jours, la ville de New York est submergée par des niveaux élevés de monoxyde de carbone, de dioxyde de soufre, de fumée et de brume. De plus petites poches de pollution atmosphérique envahissent le Grand New York, y compris certaines parties du New Jersey et du Connecticut. Le 25 novembre, les dirigeants régionaux annonçaient une « première alerte ». Au cours de celle-ci, ils demandent aux résidents et à l'industrie de prendre des mesures volontaires pour réduire les émissions au minimum. Les responsables de la santé conseillent aux personnes souffrant de problèmes respiratoires ou cardiaques de rester en intérieur. La ville ferme ses incinérateurs d'ordures, ce qui nécessite l'acheminement massif d'ordures aux sites d'enfouissement. Un front froid disperse le smog le 26 novembre et l'alerte prend fin. Dans les mois qui suivent, scientifiques et médecins étudient l'impact du smog. Les responsables municipaux de la santé affirment tout d'abord que le smog n'a pas causé de décès, mais il est rapidement devenu évident que le smog est une catastrophe environnementale majeure ayant de graves effets sur la santé publique. Une étude réalisée en décembre 1966 estime que 10 % de la population de la ville a subi des effets néfastes sur la santé, tels que des picotements aux yeux, une toux et une détresse respiratoire. Une analyse statistique publiée en octobre 1967 révèle que 168 personnes sont probablement mortes des suites du smog. Le smog catalyse une plus grande prise de conscience nationale de la pollution de l'air en tant que grave problème de santé et donc, de problème politique. La ville de New York met à jour ses lois locales sur le contrôle de la pollution atmosphérique. Sous l'impulsion du smog, le président des États-Unis Lyndon B. Johnson et les membres du congrès des États-Unis s'efforcent d'adopter une loi fédérale régissant la pollution de l'air aux États-Unis, qui aboutit à la loi de 1967 sur la qualité de l'air et à la loi de 1970 sur la propreté de l'air. Le smog de 1966 est un événement qui est comparée à d'autres épisodes de pollution, notamment les effets sur la santé de la pollution résultant des attentats du 11 septembre 2001 et de la pollution en Chine. (fr)
  • O smog de Nova York em 1966 foi um episódio de poluição do ar durante o qual o ar da cidade de Nova York ficou com níveis prejudiciais de vários poluentes tóxicos. Smog cobriu a cidade e seus arredores de 23 a 26 de novembro, coincidindo com o fim de semana do feriado de Ação de Graças daquele ano. Foi a terceira maior poluição atmosférica na cidade de Nova York, após eventos de escala semelhante em 1953 e 1963. Em 23 de novembro, uma grande massa de ar estagnada sobre a Costa Leste dos Estados Unidos aprisionou os poluentes no ar da cidade. Por três dias, a cidade de Nova York foi engolfada por níveis perigosamente altos de monóxido de carbono, dióxido de enxofre, fumaça e neblina. Bolsões de poluição do ar invadiram a Região Metropolitana de Nova Iorque, incluindo partes de Nova Jersey e Connecticut. Em 25 de novembro, a poluição tornou-se grave o suficiente para que os líderes regionais anunciassem um "alerta de primeiro estágio". Durante o alerta, líderes de governos locais e estaduais pediram aos residentes e à indústria que tomassem medidas voluntárias para minimizar as emissões. Autoridades de saúde aconselharam as pessoas com problemas respiratórios ou cardíacos a permanecerem em casa. A cidade fechou incineradores de lixo, exigindo um transporte massivo de lixo para aterros. Uma frente fria dispersou a poluição em 26 de novembro e o alerta terminou. Nos meses que se seguiram, pesquisadores médicos estudaram o impacto do smog na saúde. As autoridades municipais inicialmente sustentaram que a poluição não causou nenhuma morte, mas logo ficou claro que a poluição havia sido um grande desastre ambiental com graves efeitos de saúde pública. Um estudo publicado em dezembro de 1966 estimou que 10% da população da cidade sofreu efeitos adversos à saúde, como ardência nos olhos, tosse e dificuldade respiratória. Uma análise estatística publicada em outubro de 1967 descobriu que 168 pessoas provavelmente morreram por causa da poluição. O smog catalisou uma maior consciência nacional da poluição do ar como um sério problema de saúde e questão política. O governo da cidade de Nova York atualizou as leis locais sobre o controle da poluição do ar. Impelidos pela poluição atmosférica, o presidente Lyndon B. Johnson e os membros do Congresso trabalharam para aprovar uma legislação federal regulando a poluição do ar nos Estados Unidos, culminando na Lei de Qualidade do Ar de 1967 e na Lei do Ar Limpo de 1970. A poluição atmosférica de 1966 foi um evento marcante que serviu de referência para comparação com eventos de poluição subsequentes, incluindo os efeitos na saúde da poluição dos ataques de 11 de setembro e incidentes de poluição na China. (pt)
  • 1966年纽约市烟雾事件是重大空气污染事件，在此期间，纽约市空气中几种有毒污染物的含量都达到损害人体的程度。此次烟雾事件从11月23日持续至26日，恰好是当年的感恩节假期期间。这是继1953年和1963年类似规模的事件之后，纽约市的第三次重大烟雾事件。 11月23日，美國東岸上空的大量停滞空气将污染物带到了纽约市内。三天里，纽约市被高浓度的一氧化碳、二氧化硫、烟雾和霾所吞没。纽约都会区包括新泽西州和康涅狄格州的部分地区都遭受了空气污染。11月25日，地区领导人宣布启动“第一阶段警戒”。在警戒期间，地方和州政府的领导人要求居民和企业自愿采取措施减少排放 。卫生官员建议患有呼吸或心脏疾病的人留在室内。此外，纽约市关闭了垃圾焚烧炉，要求将大量垃圾运往垃圾填埋场。11月26日，一股冷锋驱散了烟雾，警戒结束。 在随后的几个月中，医学研究人员研究了这次烟雾对健康的影响。市政官员最初坚称烟雾没有造成任何死亡，但很快人们就发现此次烟雾是重大生态灾难，严重影响了公共健康。1966年12月的一项研究估计，该市10％人口的健康都受到了影响，例如眼睛刺痛、咳嗽、呼吸困难。1967年10月发布的统计分析发现，有168人可能因此次烟雾死亡。 此次烟雾事件激发了国民对空气污染的认识，这是一个严重的健康问题和政治问题。纽约市重修了其有关空气污染控制的本地法受烟雾事件的影响，总统林登·约翰逊（Lyndon B. Johnson）和国会议员为通过规范美国空气污染的联邦法律而努力，最终于1967年颁布《空气质量法》，1970年颁布《空气净化法》。1966年的烟雾事件是一个里程碑式事件，是之后污染事件的对比基准，比如‘911’袭击造成的污染以及发生在中国的污染事件对健康的影响。 (zh)
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  • A view of London obscured by heavy smoke (en)
  • Los Angeles, shrouded in haze (en)
  • Refer to caption. (en)
  • A morning skyline of New York City, with docks and the ocean visible at the bottom and progressively thicker haze into the distance. Only the outlines of far buildings can be seen, with details like windows or architectural features impossible to distinguish. (en)
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  • Great Smog of London, 1952 (en)
  • Smog over Los Angeles, 1973 (en)
  • John Lindsay was the mayor of New York City during the 1966 smog. (en)
  • Smog in May 1973. By 1972 New York City had cut levels of sulfur dioxide and particulates by half from their peak. (en)
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  • A black-and-white, panoramic view of New York City as seen from a great height. A vast number of buildings and skyscrapers can be seen. A hazy, smoky gas overlays the entire city like a blanket, with a fairly clear skyline only in the far distance at the horizon. Near the closest buildings, the smog appears thin and wispy. The smog appears thicker and thicker around buildings that are farther away from the photographer's position, until shorter buildings near the horizon are almost entirely shrouded and impossible to see under a thick layer of smog. Near the horizon, the clustered tops of tall skyscrapers emerge from within the smog. (en)
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  • Acute smog in New York City; lesser smog throughout the New York metropolitan area (en)
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  • The atmosphere of New York was bombarded with more man-made contaminants than any other big city in the country—almost two pounds of soot and noxious gases for every man, woman, and child. So great is the burden of pollution that were it not for the prevailing wind, New York City might have gone the way of Sodom and Gomorrah. (en)
  • We were flying at about two thousand feet, through a curiously greasy-looking and pervasive haze. The ground could just be made out below—cars, roads, houses, all dim but visible. Then we began to climb. In less than a minute the ground had vanished. Cars, roads, houses, the very earth itself had been blotted out. We were circling in bright sunlight, above an apparently limitless bank of opaque, polluted air. The smog extended to the horizon in every direction. At a distance, the slanting rays of the sun gave it a coppery, rather handsome appearance. Nearer at hand it merely looked yellow and ugly, like nothing so much as a vast and unappetizing sea of chicken soup. (en)
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  • describing his view from an airplane delayed in landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Wise was returning from London, where he had been researching the 1952 Great Smog of London. (en)
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  • Two months ago, a mass of heavily polluted air—filled with poisons from incinerators, industrial furnaces, power plants, car, bus and truck engines—settled down upon the sixteen million people of Greater New York. For four days, anyone going out on the streets inhaled chemical compounds that threatened his health. Those who remained inside had little protection from the noxious gases that passed freely through cooling and heating systems. An estimated 80 persons died. Thousands of men and women already suffering from respiratory diseases lived out the four days in fear and pain. Finally, the winds came, freeing the mass of air from the weather-trap that had held it so dangerously. The immediate crisis was ended. New Yorkers began to breathe "ordinary" air again. "Ordinary" air in New York, as in most large cities, is filled with tons of pollutants: carbon monoxide from gasoline, diesel and jet engines, sulfur oxides from factories, apartment houses, and power plants; nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons and a broad variety of other compounds. These poisons are not so dramatically dangerous most days of the year, as they were last Thanksgiving in New York. But steadily, insidiously, they damage virtually everything that exists. (en)
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  • "Smog Almost Killed New York City, Here's How" — interview with photographer Arthur Tress and history of air pollution in the United States. Video by Seeker, via YouTube. (en)
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  • The 1966 New York City smog was a major air-pollution episode and environmental disaster, coinciding with that year's Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Smog covered the city and its surrounding area from November 23 to 26, filling the city's air with damaging levels of several toxic pollutants. It was the third major smog in New York City, following events of similar scale in 1953 and 1963. (en)
  • Le smog de New York en 1966 est un événement notable de pollution atmosphérique, avec des niveaux importants de monoxyde de carbone, de dioxyde de soufre, de fumée et de brume. Le smog couvre la ville de New York du 23 au 26 novembre, ce qui correspond au week-end de la fête de Thanksgiving. Il s'agit du troisième événement de smog majeur dans la ville, à la suite d'événements de même ampleur en 1953 et 1963. (fr)
  • O smog de Nova York em 1966 foi um episódio de poluição do ar durante o qual o ar da cidade de Nova York ficou com níveis prejudiciais de vários poluentes tóxicos. Smog cobriu a cidade e seus arredores de 23 a 26 de novembro, coincidindo com o fim de semana do feriado de Ação de Graças daquele ano. Foi a terceira maior poluição atmosférica na cidade de Nova York, após eventos de escala semelhante em 1953 e 1963. (pt)
  • 1966年纽约市烟雾事件是重大空气污染事件，在此期间，纽约市空气中几种有毒污染物的含量都达到损害人体的程度。此次烟雾事件从11月23日持续至26日，恰好是当年的感恩节假期期间。这是继1953年和1963年类似规模的事件之后，纽约市的第三次重大烟雾事件。 11月23日，美國東岸上空的大量停滞空气将污染物带到了纽约市内。三天里，纽约市被高浓度的一氧化碳、二氧化硫、烟雾和霾所吞没。纽约都会区包括新泽西州和康涅狄格州的部分地区都遭受了空气污染。11月25日，地区领导人宣布启动“第一阶段警戒”。在警戒期间，地方和州政府的领导人要求居民和企业自愿采取措施减少排放 。卫生官员建议患有呼吸或心脏疾病的人留在室内。此外，纽约市关闭了垃圾焚烧炉，要求将大量垃圾运往垃圾填埋场。11月26日，一股冷锋驱散了烟雾，警戒结束。 在随后的几个月中，医学研究人员研究了这次烟雾对健康的影响。市政官员最初坚称烟雾没有造成任何死亡，但很快人们就发现此次烟雾是重大生态灾难，严重影响了公共健康。1966年12月的一项研究估计，该市10％人口的健康都受到了影响，例如眼睛刺痛、咳嗽、呼吸困难。1967年10月发布的统计分析发现，有168人可能因此次烟雾死亡。 (zh)
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