The United States Environmental Protection Agency's own official history page, describing its creation under President Nixon's Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1970 and the December 2, 1970 Senate confirmation of its first Administrator, William Ruckelshaus, the date the agency treats as its founding.
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PublisherUnited States Environmental Protection Agency
URLhttps://www.epa.gov/history/origins-epa
Source TypeGovernment agency
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