Air Pollution 1971

The late 1960's proved to be the decisive period for air pollution amelioration efforts. The changes were radical and took place with amazing rapidity. Essentially, the general public itself become aware of and involved in the air pollution question and in the process changed the nature of the anti-pollution movement fundamentally and irrevocably. Public opinion shifted dramatically during the 1960's. Polls showed that air pollution was a minor problem (number 9 of 10 listed national problems) in 1965 but had become the most important problems in the public mind by 1970 (The New York Times 1969). The new attention on environmentalism was triggered by many events: the publication of Rachael Carson's influential Silent Spring, Senator Edward Muskie's 1964 Committee hearings on air pollution around the U.S. and several well publicized ecological disasters. In 1966, some 80 people died in a four-day smog event in the New York City area. Legislation followed closely the wave of public interest. The 1963 Clean Air Act established national policy and set uniform standards for air quality. This was amended by the Air Quality Act of 1967, which set enforcement mandates for the earlier laws and established the National Air Pollution Control Administration that was tasked to enforce air quality standards and administer air pollution research programs. In 1969, the landmark National Environmentalist Protection Act (NEPA) was passed, whose purpose was "restoring and maintaining environmental quality." It created the Council on Environmental Quality and required the now famous Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), for all important actions affecting the national environment. The EIS quickly became the favored bureaucratic and legal tool in the environmentalist's kit. The Environmental Quality Act of 1970 created a bureaucracy to enforce environmental laws while the Clean Air Act of 1970 closed the loopholes left by the 1967 act. For more history, read The One-Hundred Year War Against Air Pollution by Walter E. Pittman,
University of West Alabama, available at: http://www.lsus.edu/la/journals/ideology/contents/vol26/onehundredyearwaragai... .

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[happinesson]

who will inhale such air? we will all be dead if this continues.

[johnnystaccata]

Man, we got to save the earth!

[DeMuslim]

Thanks for such a great video, these footages are great, i'll be using this in my short documentary. i'll send you the link if i upload it on YouTube. :) 

[VastViewStudios]

lol the dumb fuck who couldn't realize that he put a "1" at the beginning of his multiple "!'s"

[ssnekss]

Чувак, то что нужно! Спасибо огромное!

[maplemanz]

dumb fucks1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!