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A federal judge rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to curb CA clean air standards.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has worked to send tailpipe pollution policies to Congress to repeal. US District Judge Beryl Howell accused the EPA of “Orwellian doublethink.”

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