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E.P.A. Keeps Polluters on the Hook to Clean Up ‘Forever Chemicals’

The decision came despite an effort by a former industry lawyer who is now at the E.P.A. to reverse the regulation.

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Reservoirs in a water treatment plant designed to remove forever chemicals, known as PFAS, in North Carolina.
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Top Scientists Find Growing Evidence That Greenhouse Gases Are, in Fact, a Danger

The assessment contradicts the Trump administration’s legal arguments for relaxing pollution rules.

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Homes in the shadow of Valero refinery towers in the Houston area.
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