Leon Billings, key author of laws on clean air, water dies
CTVnews 16 Nov 2016 at 14:46 |

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Billings, 78, died Tuesday in Nashville, Tennessee, after suffering a stroke while visiting family.
As the first staff director of the Senate Environment subcommittee, Billings was a primary author of the 1970 Clean Air Act, one of the first and most influential environmental laws in U.S. history and a foundation for current air pollution laws.
Billings also played a key role in the 1972 Clean Water Act, the primary federal law governing water pollution.
He served as Muskie s environment adviser and later was his chief of staff in the Senate and when Muskie was secretary of state. Billings also served in the Maryland Legislature.