Re:EPA dismisses half of its scientific advisers on key board
by mirimir on Monday May 08, 2017 @03:20AM
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This is a total non-surprise. He's following through on campaign promises, is all. And seriously, the EPA has been on a short leash since the start. Sure, it was worse under Reagan and Bush vs Clinton and Obama. But remember:
> 1970 was a year of tremendous environmental action by Nixon and Congress.The President signed the National Environmental Policy Act on January 2nd, delivered a call to make "the 1970s a historic period when, by conscious choice, [we] transform our land into what we want it to become" in his State of the Union Address, and ended the year with the creation of an independent agency to regulate the environment.
Nixon has a bad reputation, obviously, but he was arguably quite enlightened about environmental and social issues. He might have championed a national minimum income, if he hadn't crashed and burned.
> 1970 was a year of tremendous environmental action by Nixon and Congress.The President signed the National Environmental Policy Act on January 2nd, delivered a call to make "the 1970s a historic period when, by conscious choice, [we] transform our land into what we want it to become" in his State of the Union Address, and ended the year with the creation of an independent agency to regulate the environment.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/galle...
Nixon has a bad reputation, obviously, but he was arguably quite enlightened about environmental and social issues. He might have championed a national minimum income, if he hadn't crashed and burned.