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State asks EPA to split Fairbanks and North Pole

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The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation is requesting that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency no longer consider Fairbanks and North Pole together when it comes to air quality regulation. If approved, the change could free Fairbanks from more stringent emissions regulations.

Dan Bross is a reporter at KUAC in Fairbanks.