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Guide to the Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) Records, 1968-2002 AIS.1979.21
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- Title
- Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) records, 1968-2002, Records of Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP), 1968-2002
- Subject
- GASP (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Allegheny County (Pa.). Air Pollution Variance Board., Air--Pollution--Pennsylvania--Allegheny County, Environmental protection--Pennsylvania--Societies, etc, Natural resources--Pennsylvania, Natural resources--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Pollution--Pennsylvania--Allegheny County, Smog--United States, Societies--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
- Description
- The Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) records contain materials relating to this environmental organization between 1968 and 2002. This collection is comprised of: correspondence; diagrams; schematic plans; reports; financial records; by-laws; awards; staff biographies; publications; statements; court documents; newspaper clippings; photographs; membership lists; testimonies; and policies. Areas of concentration include administrative records, legal cases, outreach efforts and environmental issues including acid rain, energy, transportation, hazardous waste and water. Additionally, legal records documenting court cases involving the companies United States Steel, Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) and Shenango, Inc. are included as well as litigation materials of air pollution cases, state implementation plans and other environmental legal cases., Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) Records, 1968-2002, AIS.1979.21, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh., GASP donated three boxes of material to the ASC on July 31, 1979. A substantial amount of more material (10 linear feet) was donated to ASC by Gladys Maharam on March 31, 2009. In April 2011, James Longhurst, Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, returned materials that a former GASP president had loaned to him in order complete his personal research., The Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP) was founded as a non-profit citizens' group in 1969 by a group of 43 volunteers in southwestern Pennsylvania working for a "healthy, sustainable environment." Over the years, the group has worked to improve environmental standards in the region through educational programs and a quarterly newsletter, Hotline. In the 1970s, GASP entered into litigation in Federal District Court to require Allegheny County to adopt standards based on the Clean Air Act of 1970. In the 1980s, GASP cooperated with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in bringing about enforcement of air quality standards at the US Steel Coke production facilities at its Clairton Works. The mission statement of the organization is as follows: "GASP will act to obtain for the residents of Western Pennsylvania clean air, water, and land in order to create the healthy, sustainable environment and quality of life to which we are all entitled." As of 2011, the organization is still active and continues to work to educate the public on questions of pollution and its remediation. GASP's website can be found through this link: http://gasp-pgh.org/., Finding aid Available in repository and on Internet; Folder level control; http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-ais197921
- Contributor
- GASP (Pittsburgh, Pa.), University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
- Date
- 1968-2002
- Type
- Collection, Petitions., Correspondence.
- Format
- 10.89 linear feet (13 1
- Identifier
- lccn:89798539, oclc:ocm28412457, oclc:28412457, pitt:US-PPiU-ais197921
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-ais197921
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, United States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
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