The Environmental Protection Agency was created in 1970 and if a bill recently introduced in the Hou
The Environmental Protection Agency was created in 1970 and if a bill recently introduced in the House of Representatives is passed it will be terminated on December 31, 2018, which makes this an especially good time to look back on the Documerica project.About the project:In the early ‘70s, just after the birth of EPA and the environmental movement, the agency initiated Project Documerica to record the state of the environment and efforts to improve it. By 1974, Documerica had produced more than 81,000 photographs by more than 100 photographers. The strongest 22,000-plus images were catalogued by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and made available to publications nationwide. About 15,000 of these images are now online.Click on the images for descriptions of some of the things that used to be worse before the EPA. -- source link
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