William Ruckelshaus, who served as the first EPA chief and later quit the DOJ rather than obey President Nixon’s order to fire the independent Watergate prosecutor, has died at age 87
William Ruckelshaus, who served as the nation’s first-ever administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and later quit the Justice Department rather than obey President Richard Nixon’s order to fire the independent special Watergate prosecutor, died on Wednesday at age 87.
In later years, Ruckelshaus raised eyebrows when he endorsed Hillary Clinton over President Donald Trump. He has repeatedly criticized the Trump administration’s actions on the environment andRuckelshaus bristled at the Republican Party’s strident and ideological calls for scrapping environmental regulations, describing the GOP’s position toward the EPA as increasingly antagonistic. William Reilly, who ran the EPA under former President George H.W.
Ruckelshaus took the EPA's helm at the age 38 during a period when pollution visibly choked American cities and poisoned the water and land. One of his early decisions was to ban DDT, overruling an Interior Department official who had concluded the insecticide did not pose a health threat. DDT is now banned in most countries except for limited use for malaria control.
Christine Todd Whitman, who served as former President George W. Bush’s EPA chief, praised Ruckelshaus’ bipartisanship and called him “a truly special person.”
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