Trump’s EPA order on pollution less bold than in past

Published April 12, 2018 10:28pm ET



President Trump’s latest action to rein in the Environmental Protection Agency focuses on streamlining existing programs and speeding up approvals instead of the all-out repeal that was the hallmark of his first year in office.

The beneficiaries of Thursday’s actions are large manufacturers, which long criticized the EPA under the Obama administration that its national air quality rules were striving for too much, too soon.

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