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Overview
- Genre
- Investigation, Contemporary Issues, Science, Environment, and Politics
- Synopsis
A hard-hitting investigative documentary of auto, coal and steel industry efforts, in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to weaken the Clean Air Act.
The film exposed the phony claims of concern for protecting the environment by the Reagan administration, the same kind of hypocritical line fed to the media and the public by the Trump and Bush White House. It was not long after telecast of this documentary that the head of EPA of that era resigned.
- Treatment
- Show treatment
- Stage
- finished
- Running time
- 56 minutes
Credits
- Robert Richter ... Producer, Director, Writer
- Jackie Leopold ... Assoc. Producer
- Burleigh Wartes ... Cinematographer
- Sidney Reichman ... Addl. Cinematography
- Robert Achs ... Addl. Cinematography
- Judith Sobol ... Editor
Production Details
- Prod. Co.
- Richter Productions
- Country
- United States
- Years of Production
- 1981-2
- Locations
- Pittsburgh PA area, Los Angeles, Japan, Sweden, Canada and England.
Distribution Details
- Release year
- 1982
- Awards
- National Emmy finalist for investigative documentaries
- Broadcast (Acq.)
- PBS ran What Price Clean Air in From Crisis to Crisis, its first series of independent documentaries.
- Language
- English
- Subtitles
- English Subtitles
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