Democrats are concerned that a temporary rollback of some environmental regulations will give companies “an open license to pollute.”

In a letter addressed Wednesday to the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Democratic members of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform said the Trump administration “should be giving its all toward making our country healthier right now. Instead it is taking advantage of an unprecedented public health crisis to do favors for polluters that threaten public health.”

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