This Is What America Looked Like Before The Epa Cleaned It Up

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This is what America looked like before the EPA cleaned it up It wasn’t pretty In 1970, Republican President Richard Nixon signed an executive order creating the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It was a time when pollution made many of our nation’s rivers and streams...

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