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FILE - In this April 21, 2020, file photo the Marathon Petroleum Corp. refinery is shown in Detroit. Thousands of oil and gas operations, government facilities and other sites won permission to stop monitoring for hazardous emissions or otherwise bypass rules intended to protect health and the environment because of the coronavirus outbreak, The Associated Press has found. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
Thousands allowed to bypass environmental rules in pandemic

By Ellen Knickmeyer, Cathy Bussewitz, John Flesher, Matthew Brown And Michael Casey Aug. 24, 2020 05:33 AM EDT

In this Friday, Aug. 14, 2020, photo New Hampshire Rep. Nancy Murphy, D-Merrimack, poses for a photo in the under-construction water filtration site for two of her town's contaminated wells, which is about two miles from the Saint-Gobain plastics factory in Merrimack, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Thousands allowed to bypass environmental rules in pandemic

By Ellen Knickmeyer, Cathy Bussewitz, John Flesher, Matthew Brown And Michael Casey Aug. 24, 2020 12:24 AM EDT