The Clean Air Act was established in 1963 under Lyndon Johnson, and has been strengthened multiple times since. Richard Nixon ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not have a typical origin story. Congress did not create it by enacting a statute; President Richard Nixon created it by presidential edict.

Before President Nixon created the EPA in 1970, water and air pollution weren't federally regulated. The Trump administration is aiming to roll back environmental regulations and lay off EPA staff.

Administrator Lee Zeldin plans to shrink the workforce as he tries to free the agency from the statutory obligation to regulate climate pollution. EPA hasn’t yet started furloughing or laying ...

President Richard Nixon founded the EPA in 1970 after yielding to public pressure to address unchecked pollution across the U.S. Now, the Trump administration is making deep cuts to the department.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not have a typical origin story. Congress did not create it by enacting a statute; President Richard Nixon created it by presidential edict .

Nixon and his wife, First Lady Pat Nixon, ... including the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the signing of the Clean Air Act in 1970; ...

William Reilly, who led the EPA under President George H.W. Bush and served in the administration of President Richard Nixon, called the current EPA's actions "a catastrophe" that threatened to ...