Shocking images 明らかにする／漏らす what American cities looked like before the Clean 空気／公表する and Water 行為／法令／行動するs were passed in the 1970s - and see what some cities look like today
- The （日）経済企画庁（米）環境保全庁 雇うd 100 photographers to 文書 US 生態学の woes in the 1970s?
- Their damning 81,000 pics 暴露するd smog, oil 流出／こぼすs and worse across America
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Shocking images 明らかにする／漏らす how 汚染 疫病／悩ますd America's skies, rivers and 主要道路s before the?環境の 保護 機関 (（日）経済企画庁（米）環境保全庁) was 設立するd in the 1970s.
The 機関 （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限d the stark photos すぐに after it formed to 証明する the US sorely needed its services, 含むing the?Clean 空気／公表する and Water 行為／法令／行動するs.
The gallery shows raw 汚水 flowed into the Potomac River 近づく the White House, 激しい smog （海，煙などが）飲み込むd New York City's George Washington 橋（渡しをする） and Oregon forests 荒廃させるd by 干ばつs.
The 居住させるd cities have since cleaned up their 行為／法令／行動するs since the （日）経済企画庁（米）環境保全庁-委任統治（領）d 汚染 規則s and now look nearly unrecognizable 30 years later.?
New York City's George Washington 橋（渡しをする）, enveloped in 激しい smog and photographed with a 見解（をとる） toward New Jersey in 1973 (left). While the city today is 汚染するd, it is nowhere 近づく the levels experienced 30 years ago
すぐに after 共和国の／共和党の 大統領 Richard Nixon created the （日）経済企画庁（米）環境保全庁 経由で (n)役員／(a)執行力のある order in 1970, the 機関 始める，決める about きれいにする up the nation and 文書ing the 範囲 of America's mess.?
Beginning in 1971, the （日）経済企画庁（米）環境保全庁 （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限d by more than 100 professional photographers to 文書 the American landscape using 40 rolls of film each.
The photographers 始める，決める out across the coal 地雷s, landfills and 製造業の zones of the then-産業の US, 同様に as 横断するing 砂漠s and 農地 and 調査するing the nooks and crannies of the big cities.
The result was a collection of more than 22,000 photographs of the country's 環境の problems 逮捕（する）d over a period of six years, a 事業／計画（する） the 機関 dubbed 'Documerica.'
A total of 15,000 images of the 投機・賭ける are 利用できる online.?
The 概念 was the brainchild of the （日）経済企画庁（米）環境保全庁's fi rst?public （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） officer, Gifford Dean Hampshire, a Kansas native and former editor for?国家の Geographic.??
Raw 汚水 flows into the Potomac River yards away from Washington DC's 悪名高い Watergate コンビナート／複合体 in April 1973 (left) and today the water appears much cleaner
Baltimore City did have some simple techniques to keep the harbor clean. Here, a 審査する has been placed across the water to 罠（にかける） trash. Modern 科学（工学）技術 has brought the city a robot (権利) to clean up the river
A 1973 干ばつ in Oregon's Marion 郡 明らかにする／漏らすd the historic 荒廃させるs of logging across the shores of Marion's Detroit Lake, in this image by 'Documerica' contributor David Falconer
Hampshire was 奮起させるd by 不景気-時代 photography programs that 伝えるd the struggles of poor 田舎の 農業者s to their fellow Americans, によれば?his 2004 obituary.?
'Documerica' took that 1930s work by the?Farm 安全 行政, covering 経済的な hardship and the Dust Bowl, as?a model for its own 成果／努力s.
'Documerica' 逮捕（する）d the nation's landscape at a time before?water and 空気／公表する 汚染 were not yet fully 規制するd. にもかかわらず 事前の 試みる／企てるs in 議会, the Clean 空気／公表する 行為／法令／行動する and the Clean Water 行為／法令／行動する did not really acquire teeth until the 早期に 1970s.
The （日）経済企画庁（米）環境保全庁 was born in the US where はびこる 汚染 made it 危険な for its 国民s to fish or swim in many of the nation's rivers and 厚い 空気／公表する 汚染 hid the iconic skylines of major cities from New York to San Francisco.
Smog catches the sunlight in Louisville, Kentucky, creating a purple 煙霧 over the city's Ohio River 橋（渡しをする）s in September 1972. A 最近の image snapped in 2021 shows （疑いを）晴らす blue skies
Cloudy, orange 汚水 発射する／解雇するd by Denver's Metro 汚水 治療 工場／植物 seeps into the South Platte River in this photo by Bruce McAllister for the （日）経済企画庁（米）環境保全庁
Before the Clean 空気／公表する 行為／法令／行動する was passed in 1970, すす and smog （海，煙などが）飲み込むd? Birmingham, Alabama, 収入 it the 愛称 'Smoke City.' This image was taken in July 1972
The Atlas 化学製品 Company 工場／植物 in Texas, 愛称d 'Old Darky,' 注ぐs smoke into the 空気／公表する 近づく a Harrison 郡 pasture in this June 1972. The 工場／植物 has since の近くにd
Between 2011 and 2013, the （日）経済企画庁（米）環境保全庁 生き返らせるd its old 'Documerica' 委任統治（領） with a crowdsourced 明言する／公表する of the 環境 (SotE) Photo 事業／計画（する）. The 機関?招待するd the members of the public to 服従させる／提出する their own photos 文書ing 環境の 条件s across the nation.
Both these crowdsourced images and the professional photography of 'Documerica' help the American public 跡をつける their nation's 関係 to the natural world upon which it was built.?
Last week's gripping images of?sepia-トンd smoke that 一面に覆う／毛布ing America's northeastern seaboard, a consequence of 気候 change's 衝撃 on Canada's 記録，記録的な／記録する-粉砕するing summer wildfires, now join these pics as a new 記録，記録的な／記録する of a new 時代.
On June 7, New York City was more than 56 times over the World Health Organization's safety 限界, making it the world's most 汚染するd.
The 空気／公表する 質 索引 (AQI) is at 353 - 500 is the highest - compared to 15 on June 3.
These 測定s are taken by 変えるing 手段d 汚染物 集中s to a uniform 索引 based on the health 影響s associated with a 汚染物.
列s of wildfire smoke （機の）カム blowing into New York City this week, but on Wednesday, the sky turned an ominous orange from 有毒な nanoparticles.?
