Caption: Abandoned automobiles and other debris clutter an acid water-and-oil-filled five acre pond. It was cleaned up under EPA supervision to prevent contamination of Great Salt Lake and a wildlife refuge nearby.
Photographer: Bruce McAllister
Date Created: 1974 June

Caption: Children play in yard of Ruston home, while Tacoma smelter stack showers area with arsenic and lead residue.
Photographer: Gene Daniels
Date Created: 1972 August

Caption: Interior of graffiti marked subway car.
Photographer: Erik Calonius
Date Created: 1973 May

Caption: Burning discarded automobile batteries.
Photographer: Marc St. Gil
Date Created: 1972 July

Caption: One of several highrise apartments whose construction was stopped by city ordinance to preserve the Breezy Point peninsula for public recreational use.
Photographer: Arthur Tress
Date Created: 1973 May

Caption: Earth, as seen by astronauts Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt from Apollo 17.
Photographer: NASA
Date Created: 1972 December

Caption: Mary Workman holds a jar of undrinkable water that comes from her well and has filed a damage suit against the Hanna Coal Company. She now has to transport water from a well many miles away.
Photographer: Erik Calonius
Date Created: 1973 October

Caption: The Atlas Chemical Company belches smoke across pasture land in foreground. It is referred to disparagingly in the community because black soot from the plant covers everything nearby.
Photographer: Marc St. Gil
Date Created: 1973 May

Caption: In 1972 a pipeline burst releasing 285,000 gallons of crude oil into the San Juan River. Flooding then caused the river to overflow into Lake Powell. The jars shown here contain water samples taken by EPA workers at the site for lab analysis.
Photographer: David Hiser
Date Created: 1972 October

Caption: Children in Fort Smith, Arkansas are learning that protecting the environment will take more than awareness.
Photographer: Jim Olive
Date Created: 1972 June

Caption: Closeup of an old coal company mining town of Red Ash Virginia. This is a classic picture of a company town with a railroad in the valley flanked by miners homes. These houses are two family dwellings; the road is made of red dog, a mining byproduct.
Photographer: Jack Corn
Date Created: 1974 April

Caption: Exhibit at the first symposium on low pollution power systems development. Vehicles and hardware were assembled at the EPA Ann Arbor Laboratory. Photo shows participants looking over the ESB "Sundancers", an experimental electric car.
Photographer: Frank Lodge
Date Created: 1973 October

Caption: Barge loaded with ashes from the Gravesend Bay incineration plant. Ashes will be taken to ocean for dumping.
Photographer: Arthur Tress
Date Created: 1973 May

Caption: Empty steel beer and soft drink cans are being used to build experimental housing near Taos, New Mexico. Some 70,000 cans are needed to build a house which can be built as much as 20% cheaper than conventional homes.
Photographer: David Hiser
Date Created: 1974 June

Caption: There is some local opposition to stripping the land in southeastern Ohio. Most people, however, are employed by the coal companies and are afraid any demands for reform will cost them their jobs.
Photographer: Erik Calonius
Date Created: 1973 October

Caption: One of a series of portraits of miners waiting to go to work on the 4 P.M. to midnight shift at the Virginia-Pocahontas coal company mine.
Photographer: Jack Corn
Date Created: 1974 April

Caption: Clark Avenue Bridge, Columbus, Ohio. Looking east from West 13th Street, it is obscured by smoke from heavy industry.
Photographer: Frank Aleksandrowicz
Date Created: 1973 July