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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Todd Richmond and Mary Katherine Wildeman

This federal rule helped clear air over America's most beloved parks. Trump's EPA wants to kill it

Trump EPA Parks Haze - (Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistribu)

During a hike in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1995, Don Barger climbed Chilhowee Mountain hoping to gaze across the valley below. All he saw was a wall of gray haze.

Today, he said, he can see some 50 miles (80 kilometers) across that same valley to the Cumberland Mountains.

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