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Smokestacks, low-flying jets, and coal miners all come into focus in a series of documentary photographs commissioned by the EPA in the early 70s.
Forty years ago, the newly-formed EPA sent photographers all over the country to document America’s environmental problems and its natural beauty. What they came back with is a remarkable picture of America in the early 1970s. Host Jeff Young talks with National Archives curator Bruce Bustard and joins photographer Michael Manhein as he returns to the site he photographed decades ago for the project.