First-Ever EPA Chief Admits The Agency Has Gotten Out Of Control

Bill Ruckelshaus sworn in as EPA Administrator while Richard Nixon looks on.

The first-ever Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator reluctantly admitted the agency he headed under both the Nixon and Reagan administrations has gotten out of control in recent years. “I almost hate to say yes, because it will skew what I’m about to say. But the answer is yes,” Bill Ruckelshaus, the first and fifth EPA administrator,…

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