A History of Presidential Environmental Policies in the United States (319 words, 1 pages)
On January 1, 1970, President Richard Nixon endorsed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), commencing the 1970s as the conservational decade. NEPA fashioned the Assembly on Environmental Quality, which supervised the ecological impact of federal activities. Later on in the year, Nixon formed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which merged ...
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