Republican lawmakers on Monday issued a scathing report accusing the
Environmental Protection Agency of flouting transparency regulations in
pursuit of its policy goals. “The Obama Administration has
advanced the most aggressive, far-left environmental agenda ever and
developed the most secretive, behind-closed-doors way of doing it. And
that's not by accident,” said Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), the top
Republican on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. The
30-page report,
prepared by Republican members of the panel, primarily focuses on EPA
activities under former Administrator Lisa Jackson, who left the agency
in February. It accuses agency officials of establishing an alias identity to hide Jackson’s actions — a nod to
the “Richard Windsor” scandal — and taking an unresponsive posture with regard to requests made of the agency under the Freedom of Information Act. EPA
officials, the lawmakers alleged, have mismanaged the electronic
records system in a manner that has jeopardized some federal records,
and redacted too much information from documents that have been
released...
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