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Why did President Richard Nixon create the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970? He created it... In response to public demand for stricter environmental protections after high-profile pollution incidents. To decentralize environmental regulations and grant states greater authority over pollution control. to create a fast-moving federal strike force, deployed to address environmental concerns both in the United States and in communist countries. To bifurcate both federal and local government agencies to create a smaller bureaucracy in dealing with environmental matt

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President Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970 in response to public demand for stricter environmental protections after high-profile pollution incidents.

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