NO, it isn't.
Nixon just renamed it.
Beginning in the late 1950s and through the 1960s,
Congress reacted to increasing public concern about the impact that human activity could have on the environment.
Senator
James E. Murray introduced a bill, the Resources and Conservation Act (RCA) of 1959, in the
86th Congress. The bill would have established a Council on Environmental Quality in the
Executive Office of the President, declared a national environmental policy, and required the preparation of an annual environmental report.
In the years following, similar bills were introduced and hearings were held to discuss the state of the environment and Congress's potential responses. In 1968, a joint House–Senate colloquium was convened by the chairmen of the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Senator
Henry M. Jackson, and the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, Representative
George P. Miller, to discuss the need for and means of implementing a national environmental policy. In the colloquium, some members of Congress expressed a continuing concern over federal agency actions affecting the environment.
The
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) was modeled on the 1959 RCA bill.
On July 9, 1970, Nixon proposed an
executive reorganization that consolidated many environmental responsibilities of the federal government under one agency, a new Environmental Protection Agency.
You're FOS.