Happy Birthday to the Clean Air Act -- 40 Years Young!

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Richard Nixon - conspirator, warmonger, and supporter of the most important environmental legislation in US history.

"We've been celebrating the Clean Air Act's 40th anniversary a lot this year, but today is the old girl's actual birthday. President Richard M. Nixon signed the 1970 Clean Air Act into law on the last day of that year. In his remarks, he saluted the new law as the achievement of leaders of both parties: "How did this come about? It came about by the President proposing. It came about by a bipartisan effort represented by the Senators and Congressmen, who are here today."

Here's a really good short video from EnergyNOW on the Clean Air Act 40th birthday (with me afterwards in an even shorter panel discussion).

The health, environmental, and economic accomplishments of the Clean Air Act -- tens of thousands of lives saved, hundreds of thousands of illnesses prevented, all while the economy more than doubled in size -- are well catalogued (a few examples are here, here, and here)."

http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/ddoniger/happy_birthday_to_the_clean_ai.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+switchboard_ddoniger+%28Switchboard%3A+David+Doniger%27s+Blog%29

Video at the link above is a definitely worth a watch.

[joshcryer]

1. Now if only we can get the Frack Act passed!