Which of the following policies contradicts President Nixon's desire to limit federal influence in the states?

the Clean Water Act

the abolition of the EOE

stagflation

nomination of Burger to the Supreme Court

As President, Nixon was only as conservative as he could be and only as liberal as he had to be. He took credit for the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency while privately noting that if he had not taken this liberal step, the Democratic Congress would have forced more liberal environmental legislation on him. This was a President who could philosophically oppose wage and price controls and privately express the conviction that they would not work, while still implementing them for election-year effect. Still his tactical flexibility should not obscure his steadiness of political purpose. He meant to move the country to the right, and he did.

the Clean Water Act

Explanation:

As Nixon wasn't eventually fond of the law, and actually vetoed after the house and the senate had already approved it, eventually they overturned the veto and made it law, costing 24 billion dollars, Nixon hold half of the budget for that law, and kept the States from being able to access that money with no actual power to do so, he expanded his federal influence on the states by doing it.