Richard Nixon by Garet Weigman https://padlet.com/garetweigman/4d6xtf4e3z82 How he helped the environment en-us 2017-09-11 14:20:31 UTC 2025-09-27 11:21:22 UTC hello@padlet.com Things he did garetweigman https://padlet.com/garetweigman/4d6xtf4e3z82/wish/186386701 On 7 different occasions Richard Nixon was doing whatever he could to help the environment.]]> 2017-09-11 14:22:00 UTC https://padlet.com/garetweigman/4d6xtf4e3z82/wish/186386701 1969: Halt all dumping in the Great Lakes garetweigman https://padlet.com/garetweigman/4d6xtf4e3z82/wish/186387867 In 1969 President Nixon detailed a 37-point message on the American environment that included goals ranging from monitoring motor vehicle emissions standards to halting all dumping in the Great Lakes. ]]> 2017-09-11 14:24:04 UTC https://padlet.com/garetweigman/4d6xtf4e3z82/wish/186387867 1970: Created cabinet-level Council on Environmental Quality garetweigman https://padlet.com/garetweigman/4d6xtf4e3z82/wish/186388463 Mounting environmental concerns in the late 1960s drove President Nixon to begin to officially examine the problem in depth. To aid his administration in developing environmental policy, Nixon first created the Council on Environmental Quality a cabinet committee overseen and coordinated by the White House Office of Science and Technology.]]> 2017-09-11 14:25:11 UTC https://padlet.com/garetweigman/4d6xtf4e3z82/wish/186388463 1970-72: Created EPA which passed Clean Air Act garetweigman https://padlet.com/garetweigman/4d6xtf4e3z82/wish/186388864 While there was some hesitation and concern regarding Nixon's intentions in creating the EPA, there is a general consensus that Nixon's true motivation was to purify the nation from an environmental standpoint.]]> 2017-09-11 14:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/garetweigman/4d6xtf4e3z82/wish/186388864 Make peace with nature; restore nature to its natural state garetweigman https://padlet.com/garetweigman/4d6xtf4e3z82/wish/186389167 Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people of this country.]]> 2017-09-11 14:26:27 UTC https://padlet.com/garetweigman/4d6xtf4e3z82/wish/186389167 $10 billion for nationwide clean water program garetweigman https://padlet.com/garetweigman/4d6xtf4e3z82/wish/186389864 We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and neither is clean water. The price tag on pollution control is high. Through our years of past carelessness we incurred a debt to nature, and now that debt is being called. The program I shall propose to Congress will be the most comprehensive and costly program in this field in America's history.]]> 2017-09-11 14:27:41 UTC https://padlet.com/garetweigman/4d6xtf4e3z82/wish/186389864