Russell E. Train
Politician
1920 – 2012
Who was Russell E. Train?
Russell Errol Train was the second Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, from September 1973 to January 1977, and the Founder Chairman Emeritus of World Wildlife Fund. As head of the EPA under U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Train is generally credited with helping to place the issue of the environment on the presidential and national agenda in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a key period in the environmental movement. He promulgated the idea that as the economy of the nation was growing quickly, public as well as private projects should consider and evaluate the environmental impacts of their actions.
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- Born
- Jun 4, 1920
Jamestown - Also known as
- Russell Train
- Russell E Train
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Columbia Law School
- Princeton University
- Died
- Sep 17, 2012
Bozman
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on July 23, 2013
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