1970 Press Photo Senator Edmund Muskie at Washington pollution news conference

Senator Edmund S. Muskie, D-ME, chairman of the Senate subcommittee on air and water pollution, faces a battery of microphones during his Washington news conference yesterday. Muskie presented his pollution program asking for federal expenditures of $15.5 billion through 1976 with a matching amount from state and local governments.

Photo is dated 1970.

Photo measures 9.5 x 8.25 inches.