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President Nixon forms the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to enforce laws that protect the environment and public health. On Dec. 2, 1970 US EPA opened its offices at 20 th and L Streets in NW Wash DC. Two days later William D. Ruckelshaus is sworn in as the agency's first administrator.
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How is a hunting license like a pollution permit? At the Toxics Action Conference on March 24, 2007, keynote speaker Lois Gibbs compared hunting licenses to the pollution permits that allow corporations to contaminate our air, water, and food. " When you get a hunting license," she noted, " you are limited to certain times and places, and you are never allowed to kill the babies. In contrast, when a corporation gets a permit to pollute from the federal or state government, it is a perpetual toxic release, and our babies are the first and the worst affected ."
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