CSPAN3 Reel America Environmental Protection Agency History 1970-1985 July 14, 2024
Beautiful]e dark skies and ruined water, burning rivers, oil spills, spring. Eaches, silent 20 years ago, the wealthiest nation in the world that they had ever known, and people who enjoyed the level of private consumption undreamed of in the past found itself awash in environmental squalor. Comfortable, our children could not play outside because of the smog. Our clothing was clean, but our bays were choked with sewage and our lakes were slowly dying. Swept thehorror nation as we began to realize what we had done to the Natural Systems that supported all life. The environmental and was born m...