IHS Panel: The Environmental Protection Agency at the Half Century Mark, 1970-2020

Institute for Historical Studies, Monday March 29, 2021

On the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, panelists will present on the agency’s tenure from a number of perspectives including a personal reflection on what it was like to work at the EPA, how the agency’s policy initiatives have changed, and how the legal framework around the agency has shifted over time.

Featured Speakers:

Sheila Olmstead
Professor of Public Affairs
University of Texas at Austin
https://lbj.utexas.edu/olmstead-sheila

Marianne Sullivan
Professor of Public Health, and Director, Global Public Health Honors Track
William Paterson University of New Jersey
https://wpconnect.wpunj.edu/directories/faculty/default.cfm?user=sullivanm19

Jeremi Suri
Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs, and Professor of History
University of Texas at Austin
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/js33338

Samuel Truett
Associate Professor of History
Director, Center for the Southwest
University of New Mexico
https://history.unm.edu/people/faculty/profile/samuel-truett.html

This talk is part of the Institute’s theme in 2020-2021 on “Climate in Context: Historical Precedents and the Unprecedented.”

Sponsored by: Institute for Historical Studies in the Department of History, and Planet Texas 2050

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