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Top headline: Environmental Protection Agency
Bottom headline: New York Times
Hiroko Tabuchi reports for the Times:
Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency was preparing to greenlight the first ever fish farm in federal waters, one that would supply a fish popular in Cajun and Creole restaurants. But the agency had a novel requirement.
It wanted to require the company, Ocean Era, to monitor the farm for microplastics, the tiny particles that have become a rising environmental and health concern.
However, some top E.P.A. officials balked. They said that mandating any company to track microplastics could set a cumbersome precedent for other industries, according to interviews and documents examined by The New York Times. So the agency ordered the requirement struck from the permit, and when an E.P.A. official filed a memo laying out his objections to that, the agency fired him.
So much for 'historic actions to protect Americans from microplastics!
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