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[https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/is-environmental-protection-possible/ by Evaggelos Vallianatos 23/8/19 COUNTERPUNCH] | [https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/is-environmental-protection-possible/ by Evaggelos Vallianatos 23/8/19 COUNTERPUNCH] | ||
I joined the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1979. It happened by accident. A friend in Alexandria, Virginia, was working for the personnel office of EPA. We talked and I expressed interest in EPA. I said to him something to the effect the EPA was a great and necessary institution in late twentieth century America. You could not hide from pollution. Millions of cars harmed our health and defiled the atmosphere daily. | I joined the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1979. It happened by accident. A friend in Alexandria, Virginia, was working for the personnel office of EPA. We talked and I expressed interest in EPA. I said to him something to the effect the EPA was a great and necessary institution in late twentieth century America. You could not hide from pollution. Millions of cars harmed our health and defiled the atmosphere daily. | ||
=====How America solved its first air pollution crisis — and why solving the next one will be harder===== | |||
[https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23757949/air-pollution-history-progress-clean-air-act-environmental-protection-agency-wildfires-smoke-smog by Rachel DuRose 22/6/23 Vox] | |||
The history of American air pollution, explained. | |||
