Remember conservative Richard Nixon created the EPA. As is often the case, much of what the media, neoliberals and oligarchs peg as 'radical' or 'leftist' nowadays is, in fact, a return to basic centrism that was mainstream in the era from FDR up until Reagan took this country on a sharp right toward our new Gilded Age, assisted by neoliberals like the Clintons in the Dem party.
"Arguing for the Clean Air Act on Earth Day 1970, Senator Edmund Muskie, Democrat of Maine...insisted that “man’s environment” included “the shape of the communities in which he lives” and that “the only kind of society that has a chance” was “a society that will not tolerate slums for some and decent houses for others, rats for some and playgrounds for others, clean air for some and filth for others.”...For Senator Muskie, environmentalism meant that no neighborhood or job should be toxic. In the three years that followed, the country adopted the most ambitious and effective environmental legislation in its history, including Mr. Muskie’s Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act... Like much new radicalism, the Green New Deal is good sense rediscovered."
https://www.nytimes.com/…/green-new-deal-ocasio-cortez-.html
