Kennedy had promised to be “the best environmental president in

Avalon - Kennedy had promised to be “the best environmental president in American history.” For decades, as an attorney and celebrity activist, he urged more vigorous enforcement of federal regulations guaranteeing clean air and water. Now he joins a campaign whose policies, according to critics, would scale back those regulations and weaken the agencies that uphold them. How desperate and Sad for them both. Even more so for their backers.