Government-Environmental Protection
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Wilderness Forever: The Wilderness Act 50th Anniversary
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, the Sierra Club and the Smithsonian collaborated on a short film primer at the entrance to The Smithsonian Institution Museum’s Wilderness Forever exhibit opening Sept. 3rd
6 Good Things Richard Nixon Did for the Environment
by Shea Gunther 14/8/24 Treehugger
When most people think of President Richard Nixon, the term "environmentalist" isn't the word that immediately leaps to mind. The 37th president, who resigned from office in 1973 after the Watergate scandal, left a surprisingly strong environmental legacy, giving our nation new legislation governing protection of the air, water and wilderness.
Theodore Roosevelt
Despite his unabashed taste for hunting, Theodore Roosevelt was undeniably a lover of nature, and perhaps our first environmentalist president. Throughout his presidency, Roosevelt used executive action like no other president before him to reach his conservationist goals. Roosevelt ensured that Yellowstone National Park could not be exploited for commercial goals and established over 50 national bird refuges through executive action. He would go on to found the U.S. Forest Service and create the
first 18 National Monuments, including Muir Woods, Grand Canyon, and Devils Tower.
Is Environmental Protection Possible?
by Evaggelos Vallianatos 23/8/19 COUNTERPUNCH
I joined the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1979. It happened by accident. A friend in Alexandria, Virginia, was working for the personnel office of EPA. We talked and I expressed interest in EPA. I said to him something to the effect the EPA was a great and necessary institution in late twentieth century America. You could not hide from pollution. Millions of cars harmed our health and defiled the atmosphere daily.
