Hi John,
I don’t know if this is possible, but would you be able to run this command in your environment and see if you still get the same error?
Not sure if I can ask this, if not, not to worry. I’ll try something else 
curl -v -H “Authorization: Bearer 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” -H “Connection: close” https://api-inference.huggingface.co/models
Thank you!