Guide to the Records of Group Against Smog and Pollution (GASP), 1969-1988
1969-1988
Metadata Details
- Title
- Group Against Smog and Pollution records 1870-1978 1969-1988
- Creator
- Subject
- United States. Clean Air Act., United States. Clean Water Acr., Southwestern Pennsylvania Regional Planning Commission., Group Against Smog and Pollution (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Environmental agencies--Pennsylvania--Allegheny County
- Description
- These papers include correspondence, news clippings, publicity materials, pamphlets, reports, land policies, laws, studies and other sundry items generated by the GASP organization, Group Against Smog and Pollution, MSS 0043, Library and Achives Divisionm, Senator John Heinz History Center, Cletis Pelkofer gift 1979 1979.0227 manuscript, The Group Against Smog and Pollution, GASP, was a Pittsburgh and Allegheny County area citizens action group founded in 1969. Membership in this group was not limited to professionals such as scientists, doctors, lawyers, and teachers but included housewives and anyone interested in their health. In order to meet the organization's goal of preventing and reducing the existing forms of ecological degradation, Mrs. Michelle Madoff, the organization founder, used a number of acting standing committees in the medical, legal, scientific, and water and air pollution areas. These groups took legal action, wrote medical opinions, and kept an eye on major polluters of the area. They were very active in attending and testifying at hearings and it was due to their participation that many laws were changed. Many of the laws accepted by the Allegheny County Commissioners were written by committee members and became the toughest laws in the country for pollution., Gift of Cletis Pelkofer, Processed MSS 0043 2000 E. Clougherty., Finding aid available.
- Publisher
- Contributor
- Group Against Smog and Pollution (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1969-1988
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- Identifier
- Source
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-MSS43, pdcp_noharvest
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Allegheny County
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/