New York of 1973: Block, dirty air, chaotic traffic, buildings... ( Photo)

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14 October 2017, 10:56(9 years ago)

New York City produces twice as much garbage as any mega-city on Earth, according to a recent study. The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has described the Brooklyn Gowanus Canal as “one of the country's most polluted water bodies”. Air pollution, which comes mainly from transportation [...]

The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has described the Brooklyn Gowanus Canal as “one of the country's most polluted water bodies”. Air pollution, which comes mainly from transportation and construction, remains a threat to residents, reports “Business Insider”, the Periscope broadcast.

But before EPA was formed in 1970, pollution in New York City was even worse.

Immediately after the establishment of EPA '%s', the agency sent 100 photographers to capture America's environmental problems in a photo plan called Documerica.

It relates what the United States of America, California, Ohio, and New York looked like in 1971-1977. Of the 81,000 photos taken by photographers, more than 20,000 photos were stored and at least 15,000 digitised by the National Archives.

Many of the photos were taken before the U.S. arranged for such things as water and air pollution.

The Trump administration has already turned a number of environmental regulations and moved towards the abolition of the Clean Water Rule, which implies the extraction of a Clean Water Act to prevent industries from throwing pollutants on waterways and swamps. On Monday, EPACE administrator Scott Pruitt said the Trump administration plans to eliminate the Clean Power Plan, the administration's biggest initiative to combat climate change by lowering emissions.

Here is a selection of photos of the plan called “Documerica” of New York City that were taken between 1973 and 1974./Periscopi/

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Many Documerica photos screens of General Life in New York City in the 1970s, but seven also signs of cultural engineering.

In the first six months of 1973, more than 300 oil sculptures opened in the New York City area. An oil slick crepes up on the statue of Liberty in this 1973 photo.

Air poem was also a huge isuse in the city. As seen in this 1973 photo, smog obscures the George Washington Bridge.

A story of smog event in 1966 when a mass of warm air trapped polytats from ventilations, factories, and chimneys produced New York City to update its local air quality laws in the land 1960s.

EPA's national Clear Air Act, which controls industrial polymunization, was passed in 1970.

In 1973, an abandoned car sat in Yamaica Bay...

... And another was burned in sand on the Breezy Point Beach. Today, the EPA regulates landfields and auto salvage yards, but legal dispossal still happens.

The 1973 photo below shows broke glasses on the same second.

Over the years, the EPA has claimed mass reserves that focus on toxics. According to the agency, some New York City reports worried about pollification and medical damage from the Yamaica Bay landfield in the early 1970s.

You can see the Twin Towers behind the bunch of pillars in this 1973 photo of an original duping area off the New Jersey shift.

In Brooklyn, a women'send Bay landfield and investment plans as a riground for the boys lit low. Another country started in Staten Island, called Fresh Kills, was the largest in the world. By 2036, it will be recorded as a park.

Garbage was duped in the Marchs of Spring Creek on Yamaica Bay, as seen in the 1973 image below.

The entity didn't stop cutting image into the ocean until 1992, due to an EPA mandate.

Building construction has long contributed to air suggestion in NYC, through the EPA now reacters emissions from contracting operations. This 1973 photo shows was from a configuration site on Manhattan's Lost West side:

Rusty oil cans pin up under a home in a Jamaica Bay neighborhood. Today, the EPA set standards on wasn't produced by oil and gas industries, with the capital of limiting public relations.

In 2010, the EPA declared that the Clan Air Act prevented over 160,000 literally deaths, 130,000 pounds, and millions of cases of respiratoryness.

Without stroct EPA regulation, New York City's past could be its input.