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To: koan who wrote (182212)	2/12/2012 3:08:36 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 543150

>>And I do not remember how the EPA came together, but I seem to recall Nixon put he EPA under the Dept of natural resources to render it impotent?<< The EPA didn't exist before Nixon was President. Nixon actually created it. From Wikipedia: "On July 9, 1970, citing rising concerns over environmental protection and conservation, President Richard Nixon transmitted Reorganization Plan No. 3 to the United States Congress by executive order, creating the EPA as a single, independent agency from a number of smaller arms of different federal agencies. Prior to the establishment of the EPA, the federal government was not structured to comprehensively regulate environmental pollutants." en.wikipedia.org Far from rendering it impotent, Nixon's plan gave the newly created agency some teeth. We should give credit where it's due. By today's Republican standards, he'd be considered anti-business.