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BACK TO THE FUTURE

Before there was Scott Pruitt, there was Anne Gorsuch.

Scott Pruitt isn’t the first EPA administrator famously hostile to the agency. That distinction goes to Anne Gorsuch. Appointed by President Ronald Reagan, the agency’s first

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