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FILE ? Elizabeth Sutherland, who joined the Environmental Protection Agency during the first George Bush administration and resigned in 2017 from her position as a senior official in the agency?s clean water program, outside the agency?s offices in Washington, Dec. 17, 2019. President Donald Trump has made rolling back environmental regulations a centerpiece of his administration, but statistics and data embedded in regulatory documents by scientists and lawyers inside the federal government may hand ammunition to environmental lawyers working to block the administration?s policies. (Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times/Fotoarena)
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