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EPA: then and now

by Judith Lewis
October 6, 2004 10:10 AM
"I cannot recall during the time I headed EPA under both Nixon and Ford ever being told to make a regulartory decision or to alter a scientific finding. Such a course would have been unthinkable."

That's Russell E. Train, Undersecretary of the Interior under Nixon, EPA Agency Administrator from 1973 to 1977 and the first chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality in 1970.

(I found this essay in the Patagonia catalog.)

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