| Submit your comments on this article |
| Government |
| Lengthy Senate report details EPA FOIA abuses |
| 2013-09-10 |
| [WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Environmental Protection Agency officials have from the beginning of President Obama's tenure in the Oval Office "pursued a path of obfuscation, operating in the shadows, and out of the sunlight," according to a Senate report. The report by Republican members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee provides a detailed description of violations of the Freedom of Information Act and other federal laws and regulations meant to encourage transparency and accountability in the government. "The agency established an alias identity to hide the actions of the former administrator; has purposefully been unresponsive to FOIA request, oftentimes redacting information the public has a right to know; and mismanaged its electronic records system such that federal records have been jeopardized," the report said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 What does the EPA has to do with the Ecology or Environment? Seriously. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-09-10 10:42 |
| #9 Anyone who can do maths.... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-09-10 10:41 |
| #8 You can start by looking at the industries the EPA is regulating. Working with them and not against them. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-09-10 10:30 |
#7 Where you gonna find somebody who understands ecology and economics and math to do such job? Well, start by NOT looking in the EPA... |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2013-09-10 09:38 |
| #6 ..well, they found people in uniform who've never built a country before. Did a respectable job by the time it was handed over to the tribal kleptocracies. I'm sure their granddaddies were proud of their work. That whole academic credential thingy is indeed over rated. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-09-10 09:04 |
| #5 So you need some kind of agency. I think cramming it with gaia worshippers and using it to cripple commerce is not a task for the state. Where you gonna find somebody who understands ecology and economics and math to do such job? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-09-10 08:17 |
| #4 Well The government (it's generally accepted) has a role in preventing/reparations for negative externalities. So you need some kind of agency. I think cramming it with gaia worshippers and using it to cripple commerce is not a task for the state. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-09-10 04:50 |
| #3 Just EPA or all of it, BP? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-09-10 02:26 |
| #2 Shut it down and re-start it. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-09-10 01:40 |
| #1 I'll take it seriously when someone is sent to Prison - and not the 'Club-Fed' kind either but the same pound-me-in-the-ass prison *we* would face if we did the same thing. Until then it's just theater. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-09-10 00:19 |