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BIDEN REVERSES TRUMP’S SHOWERHEAD DEREGULATION

BIG BUSINESS AND environmentalists don’t agree on much. But they both cheered the Biden administration’s late-July reversal of a short-lived Trump administration rule easing restrictions on the pleasing flow of multi-headed showers.

Beginning in the 1990s, showerheads sold in the U.S. could, and not just individual showerheads, to comply with the limit. That effectively outlawed the multi-headed showers then on the market.

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