The environmental legislation by Richard Nixon in 1970 was the Environmental Policy Act , which required government agencies to conduct environmental Impact studies for building projects.
The decade ended with a hazardous chemical incident at Cuyahoga river.
This was the policy that was signed by the president as one of the measures towards the preservation of the environment.
The policy was to ensure that companies would have to check the impact of their activities to the natural environment first.
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