Environmental Protection Agency, U.S.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created by executive order (Reorganization Plan No. 3, signed by President Richard Nixon) in December 1970. The federal agency tasked with creating and enforcing regulations to protect human health and the environment, it is not ...

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