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US House axes regulations on oil and mining company payments, stream pollution

US House kills two Obama-era rules WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (Reuters) – The Republican-led US House of Representatives on Wednesday killed two Obama-era rules, one intended to root out corruption in the extraction sector and one aimed at reducing stream pollution. Required by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s “extraction […]