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Actually, Mr Trump, it's stronger environmental regulation that makes economic winners

  • Written by Ou Yang, Research Fellow, University of Melbourne

Donald Trump has ordered US federal agencies to bypass environmental protection laws and fast-track pipeline, highway and other infrastructure projects. Signing the executive order last month, the US president declared regulatory delays would hinder “our economic recovery from the national emergency”.

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