Okay, so we start with kind of question of retrenchment from what. And here we go back to kind of the classic sort of view of the birth of The Environmental Protection Agency was established in the 1970s under the presidency of Richard Nixon. and the first administrator of the epa, William Ruckelshaus, who then commandeered and the agency as it started to develop and implement these major federal environmental laws that I know … (07:01–07:42)
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