Fifty-five years ago, the first known American deaths from air pollution occurred right here in southwestern Pennsylvania, in the river town of Donora. Donora, located on the western bank of the Monongahela River in Washington County, was named after Nora Mellon, wife of R.B. Mellon, and W.H. Donner. Donner and Mellon purchased the land in which their Union Steel Company would construct a rod mill that later became the American Steel and Wire Works. In 1948, 14,000 people resided in Donora, and many thousands lived in towns in the immediate vicinity.

Some of Gore main points deal with working to Meet the Challenge of Global Warming. Al Gore and the Administration proposed an FY 2001 budget, which includes $2.4 billion a 42 percent increase to combat global climate change, and $1.7 billion for scientific research into factors influencing climate and the likely consequences of global warming. Also the Clinton-Gore Administration Cleaned Up 3 times as Many Toxic Waste Sites as the Reagan and Bush Administrations Combined. Since 1993, the Clinton-Gore Administration has cleaned up 525 toxic waste sites- over three times more than were cleaned up during the previous 12 years .

To be precise, this mass is not really an island. The garbage itself floats just beneath the surface in a decaying soup that extends many feet below the surface in places. The mass is held together by oceanic currents called gyres. Also known as a trash vortex, this mass of mostly plastic doesn't discriminate. Large pieces mingle in a muck of tiny plastic bits broken down by the sun in a process called photo-degeneration. the main problem to why they cant get the garbage out o fhte ocean is because it would be a a problem to seperate the trash from the animals without harming or bothering them during the process.