About EPA
Historical Photos and Images
Non-Historical Environmental Photo Collections
- EPA photostream on Flickr (scroll through these quickly on our multimedia page)
- EPA image galleries
- Photos and images from other U.S. Government agencies
Videos
- Video celebrating EPA's 40th anniversary (3 min., 5.65MB) This montage of archival and contemporary footage captures pivotal events of 40 years of the environmental protection movement.
- 2006 video about EPA's administrators and their accomplishments (12 min., 46 MB, wmv)
A hillside dump near Sonora, California, 1972 (Photographer: Gene Daniels)
State of the Environment Photo Project
In the 1970s, EPA began Documerica, a project that hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems, EPA activities, and everyday life and ultimately collected over 15,000 photos in the archive.
Starting in April 2011 and over the coming year to Earth Day 2012, we're again inviting photographers to submit photos on the state of the environment as they experience it. Submit your best photos starting now, and later in April we'll feature uploaded photos on EPA.
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EPA's Documerica Project (1971-77). In the early '70s, just after the birth of EPA and the environmental movement, the agency initiated Project Documerica to record the state of the environment and efforts to improve it. By 1974, Documerica had produced more than 81,000 photographs by more than 100 photographers. The strongest 22,000-plus images were catalogued by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and made available to publications nationwide. About 15,000 of these images are now online.
View Documerica photos:
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Other NARA photos relating to environmental topics like acid rain, cancer and the environment, the Love Canal disaster, oil spills, ozone, recycling, Three Mile Island and water pollution.
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Superfund 30th anniversary timeline (to view the slideshow, click on "1978", and then the photo on the left)