March 12, 2018 05:55 pm PDT
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America, before the EPA: the photos that the EPA commissioned to document the conditions that led to its formation
When Nixon formed the EPA in 1970, the agency had the prescience to send photographers across America to photograph the kinds of environmental catastrophes that triggered its formation: chemical factories belching smoke; smog over cities; burning barges in the middle of waterways; clearcuts, litter and filthy lakes and rivers. (more…)
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