What the he!! was Nixon’s deal with starting the EPA????
I was a teenager at the time; but in the post-hippy days there was some increasing awareness of pollution issues; many legit.
I remember the haze and funk around the stockyards in KC. Cities back east and out west had permanent smog hazes in their basins. A river somewhere up east caught on fire...
But as usual, the federal solution over-corrected and in 40 years has become an overreaching, business stifling monster infested by progressives with an agenda to reduce US commerce to zilch and put us all on 10-speed bikes or electric cars in high-tech green slavery.
Did Nixon do it to divert attention, or was he being bipartisan and global (He opened China)? Not sure, but the EPA of today is an albatross around our necks.