E.P.A

The E.P.A. vs. the Environment

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The first person to head the Environmental Protection Agency, which was created by President Richard Nixon, in late 1970, was an up-and-coming Republican politician named William Ruckelshaus. Ruckelshaus, known to his friends as Ruck, came from Indiana, where, during a single term in the state’s House of Representatives, he had managed to get elected majority … Read more

Trump’s E.P.A. Seeks to Deny Science That Americans Discovered

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Widespread news reports on Wednesday said that the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, has recommended the reversal of the long-standing federal position that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger the public. That recommendation is, on the one hand, entirely predictable. President Donald Trump, who asked the E.P.A. for an opinion … Read more