Papers of Robert Broughton, 1965-1977.

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Papers of Robert Broughton, 1965-1977.

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The papers of Robert Broughton consist of records dating from 1965 - 1977, and have been organized into 8 series: Subject Files, Citizen's Advisory Council to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources Environmental Quality Board, Correspondence, Manuscript Notes , Unpublished research papers and reports, Local Environmental Organizations and Environmental Law, and Publications. More information about the records is available at the individual series level. The Broughton Papers mainly concentrate on environmental issues affecting Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. Publications of mainly local and regional nature have been retained in the collection.

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University of Pittsburgh

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University of Pittsburgh

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Broughton, Robert

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Robert Broughton, a Duquesne University Law Professor, actively participated in environmental conservation and air pollution control issues in Allegheny County. He joined Duquesne University in 1966 and became a full professor three years later. Broughton chaired the Allegheny County Board of Air Pollution Appeals and Variance Review, April 1970 - February 1973. He also served as chair of the Land Use Policy Committee of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Broughton's father, Philip S. Broughton, ...

Allegheny County (Pa.). Bureau of Air Pollution Control

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In 1941 Pittsburgh instituted its first smoke control ordinance and established the Bureau of Smoke Prevention, under the city's Department of Health, in order to collect data and administer the new law. In 1949, Allegheny County passed its first smoke control ordinance and simultaneously established its own smoke control agency, the Bureau of Air Pollution Control (alternately called the Bureau of Smoke Control). Both the city and the county continued to act separately until the county took ful...