On Jan. 1, 1970, President Richard Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act into law. Six months later, he proposed the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, which ...

Allowing states to shoulder more responsibility for environmental reviews will restore the function and purpose of the National Environmental Policy Act.

The final piece of Nixon’s environmental legacy, the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, was proposed by Nixon, passed by Congress in 1974, but actually signed into law by President Gerald Ford ...

At first glance, it is telling that a Republican president like Richard Nixon passed pro-environmental policies at all, given that the modern GOP is staunchly against environmental reforms.

But Nixon was terrific on the environment, for his own reasons, and Obama is trying to be. But Nixon was terrific on the environment, for his own reasons, ...

The president’s plan to streamline the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a bedrock environmental law signed with much fanfare by President Richard M. Nixon in 1970, would make it ...

On this day in 1973, President Richard Nixon signed into law the Endangered Species Act. The legislation’s primary goal is to prevent the extinction of plant and animal life.