Russell E. Train, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Russell E. Train

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

Date of Birth: 04-Jun-1920

Date of Death: 17-Sep-2012

Profession: politician, conservationist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Russell Errol Train (June 4, 1920 – September 17, 2012) was the second administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), from September 1973 to January 1977 and the founder chairman emeritus of World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
As the second head of the EPA under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Train helped 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 was a conservative who reached out to the business community and Republicans.
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.