Nixon's Compromise: Establishing the Environmental Protection Agency
| Title: | Nixon's Compromise: Establishing the Environmental Protection Agency |
| Author: | Lamy, Rudy |
| Advisor: | Friedman, Andrew |
| Department: | Haverford College. Dept. of History |
| Type: | Thesis (B.A.) |
| Issue Date: | 2012 |
| Abstract: | This paper examines the role of Richard Nixon as environmental actor in the creation of the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1970. By compromising previous American environmental thought of conservation with and Republican values of economic production, he was able to pass a reorganization of federal government and thus establish the EPA. By understanding the economic value of environment as the provider of resources and the base for materiality, the EPA represented the integration of American ecology with its economy and culture. |
| Subject: | Environmental protection -- Economic aspects -- United States |
| Subject: | Environmental protection -- United States -- History |
| Subject: | Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 |
| Subject: | United States. Environmental Protection Agency -- History |
| Terms of Use: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/ |
| Permanent URL: | http://hdl.handle.net/10066/9091 |
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Citation
"Nixon's Compromise: Establishing the Environmental Protection Agency".
2012. Available electronically from
http://hdl.handle.net/10066/9091.