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Trump Hands Polluting Coke Plants a Two-Year Hall Pass
The White House used November 21 to announce a two-year regulatory reprieve for coke-oven facilities, a move sold as a national-security necessity but likely to revive complaints that Trump is again treating pollution rules like a nuisance to be waved away for favored industry. The exemption, aimed at facilities tied to steel production, gives the administration a talking point about jobs and supply chains. It also hands critics an easy example of the Trump model in action: deregulation first, environmental consequences later.