Polluted Area on Gulf Coast: Mustang Island, 100 Miles South of Houston.

In 1972, Marc St. Gil photographed the evidence and effects of industrial pollution in Louisiana, as part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Documerica project. Several of St. Gil’s Louisiana photographs are available in Flickr’s Commons from the U.S. National Archives, including some that suggest just how new and incomplete our awareness of environmental pollutants was—and some that are achingly familiar today.

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