President Richard Nixon established the day on the last Friday in April but that was nearly 100 years after the movement began.

Within a year, US president Richard Nixon had created the Environmental Protection Agency – a new branch of the federal government. The first Earth Day also preceded a wave of environmental ...

May 8 (UPI) --Pete McCloskey, a former California congressman who founded Earth Day and challenged President Richard Nixon for the Republican nomination in 1972, has died at the age of 96.