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How Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass

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President Trump temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether. Our investigative reporter Eric Lipton explains how corporate interests took power inside the Environmental Protection Agency.

Video by Eric Lipton, Jon Miller, Paul Abowd, Rafaela Balster, Nikolay Nikolov and Whitney Shefte/The New York Times #EPA #pollution #Trump

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