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Want to avoid costly environmental regulations? Just email the EPA.

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The EPA announced Monday that it would speed up the process by which industry can bypass air pollution rules with a simple offer: email us for a presidential exemption.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the "greatest day of deregulation" and said the agency was reviewing 31 rules that, he claims, amount to " trillions of dollars in regulatory costs and hidden taxes" Environmental experts believe the policy will be challenged in court.

"This is something that we will fight to make public," said Joe Bonfiglio , executive director of the U.S. region of the Environmental Defense Fund , a prominent environmental nonprofit. "For companies who take advantage of this hall pass, there are organizations like ours who will make sure communities around those facilities know about the requests." Companies have until March 31 to email the EPA with the required information for the president to consider..