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Thousands allowed to bypass environmental rules in pandemic

by Associated Press
| August 23, 2020 9:30 PM

Thousands of oil and gas operations, government facilities and other sites have won permission to stop monitoring for hazardous emissions or otherwise bypass rules intended to protect health and the environment because of the coronavirus outbreak, The Associated Press has found.

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