The EPA was another bad idea from Nixon. Anyone should have known that giving the government power to regulate every phase of business and development in this country would inevitably lead to a bureaucratic power grab that would shrink the private sector and increase the government.
Government never stays within its bounds because power corrupts, as the Founders well knew.
Nison was never a conservative: he wanted the love of the liberal establishment. He was demonized becausse he was outing the COMMUNISTS in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. They never forgave him no matter how many liberal programs he came up with: including the EPA. And then he tries fixing prices???? How stupid.