Nixon only created the EPA because congress was about to establish its own national environmental regulatory body and he needed to undermine it by establishing an agency where he gets to appoint the leadership and prevent it from doing anything too radical. The EPA only exists in its current form because the Republicans sabotaged something better.
Nixon only created the EPA because congress was about to establish its own national environmental regulatory body and he needed to undermine it by establishing an agency where he gets to appoint the leadership and prevent it from doing anything too radical. The EPA only exists in its current form because the Republicans sabotaged something better.