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EPA overrides scientists' calls for tougher pollutant limit

by Ellen Knickmeyer
| December 7, 2020 2:03 PM

The Trump administration on Monday made final its decision to leave limits for a deadly kind of air pollutant unchanged, overriding scientific findings that tougher standards could save tens of thousands of lives yearly.

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