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The Wall Street Journal: EPA’s Pruitt Wants to Limit His Own Agency’s Authority

06/27/2018
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The Wall Street Journal
By Tim Puko
June 26, 2018

The chief of the Environmental Protection Agency is trying to limit one of the agency’s most powerful tools to manage or block mining, real-estate and other developments by removing the effective veto power it has over permits to dump waste into waterways.

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