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The White House’s July 13 proclamation gives certain chemical-manufacturing facilities a two-year exemption from specified HON-rule compliance deadlines under Clean Air Act Section 112. The administration frames it as a national-security safeguard, but the legal effect is narrower than the broad deregulatory messaging suggests.
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The White House’s July 13 proclamation gives certain chemical-manufacturing facilities a two-year exemption from specified HON-rule compliance deadlines under Clean Air Act Section 112. The administration frames it as a national-security safeguard, but the legal effect is narrower than the broad deregulatory messaging suggests.
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The White House’s July 13 proclamation gives certain chemical-manufacturing facilities a two-year exemption from specified HON-rule compliance deadlines under Clean Air Act Section 112. The administration frames it as a national-security safeguard, but the legal effect is narrower than the broad deregulatory messaging suggests.
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