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Deal suspends rules on trucker hours after pipeline leak threatens gas supplies
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A leak in the Colonial pipeline, which runs from Texas to New Jersey and supplies gasoline for much of Georgia and the eastern seaboard, has pushed Gov. Nathan Deal to extend an executive order that suspends rules limiting the hours commercial truck drivers can operate when delivering fuel. The order, which coincides with a waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency, is meant to ensure the supply of transportation fuel across the state remains uninterrupted.