America, before the EPA: the photos that the EPA commissioned to document the conditions that led to its formation
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3HZT3)
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")