Dr. Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and a former EPA employee, told Daily Kos about how this failure spans across presidential administrations regardless of party. “We have not had an environmental president since maybe Richard Nixon [due to the creation of the EPA under his administration]. And that’s pretty sad because he was not an environmentalist.” She added that it could be worse under Democratic presidents because of the perception that when Democrats are in office, the EPA is working on behalf of the American people.
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