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Trump: EPA boss expects to cut 65 percent of staff
Cutting EPA’s staff to around 5,000 employees would put the agency close to the numbers it had when it was created by ...
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Hundreds march in downtown San Diego, demanding fired EPA employees be rehired
A couple hundred people marched through downtown San Diego on Monday, calling it a life-or-death situation. KPBS reporter John Carroll says they’re demanding the Trump administration take action on ...
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Abolish the EPA
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.
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Bonnie Brown: EPA can’t accomplish critical goals with massive budget cut
When I was a child I lived next to the Androscoggin River. Sludge floats of toxic industrial waste flowed past my home and out to sea. Fish died by the millions. In 1970 President Richard Nixon ...
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Republicans plan bill to define EPA’s authority
House Energy and Commerce Republicans are working on a first-of-its-kind effort that would lay out EPA’s powers in a ... s necessary because President Richard Nixon created the agency through ...
Trump is pushing boundaries to cut federal spending. So did Nixon.
The U.S. shrugged when Thomas Jefferson blocked funding for a program he hated. Richard Nixon did the same with programs he didn’t like.
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35 vintage photos taken by the EPA reveal what American cities looked like before pollution was regulated
The United States used to be dangerously polluted. Before President Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, the environment and its well-being was not a federal ...