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And the search for gold bars has shockingly been fruitless EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has said that the greenhouse gas reduction program was vulnerable to waste, fraud, and abuse. And about the EPA having that email address set up for copy and paste exemptions to the CleanAirAct, which my colleague Mary D.
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