"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do". – President Ronald Reagan 1981. 

Cough, cough. What? The Daily Green has a round up of nine Presidents with awful environmental records. It would be comical if it wasn't so bad. 

We know the Eisenhower-era loved highways and gave birth to sprawl.

Nixon signed milestone legislation - Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act - but only under intense politcal pressure in the run-up to the 1972 election. After re-election, he all but stripped the EPA’s power to do its job.

The Gipper tore down the solar panels that Jimmy Carter had installed on the roof of the White House. More importantly he also dismantled the federal energy standards Carter had put in place.

George W. Bush. He was to the environment as Jar Jar Binks was to Star Wars.

But what about McKinley? Grant? Read on HERE.

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