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EPA officials have asked program staff to draft a rule that will drastically reduce data collection.

Those devices, which weigh 200 pounds or more, were wrapped in fire blankets and trucked to an EPA temporary processing site to be disassembled.

The estimated number of excess deaths and illnesses from the EPA’s actions are likely an undercount due to long-term outcomes, such as cancer, that are harder to quantify, Symons said.

Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator, went so far as to call climate change a “religion” at a briefing in March, outlining steps his agency would undertake to deregulate.

Donald Trump’s EPA says coal plants and other industrial polluters can ask to bypass provisions of the Clean Air Act by sending the agency an email.