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EPA says Superfund Task Force left behind little paper trail |
2017-12-21 |
WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ The Environmental Protection Agency says an internal task force appointed to revamp how the nation’s most polluted sites are cleaned up generated no record of its deliberations. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt in May announced the creation of a Superfund Task Force that he said would reprioritize and streamline procedures for remediating more than 1,300 sites. Pruitt, the former attorney general of Oklahoma, appointed a political supporter from his home state with no experience in pollution cleanups to lead the group. The task force in June issued a nearly three dozen-page report containing 42 detailed recommendations, all of which Pruitt immediately adopted. The advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, known as PEER, quickly filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking a long list of documents related to the development of Pruitt’s plan. After EPA didn’t immediately release any records, PEER sued in federal court in Washington. Now, nearly six months after the task force released its report, a lawyer for EPA has written PEER to say that the task force had no agenda for its meetings, kept no minutes and used no reference materials other than Pruitt’s memo appointing them. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#9 |
Posted by: Skidmark 2017-12-21 20:01 |
#8 Pruitt, the former attorney general of Oklahoma, appointed a political supporter from his home state with no experience in pollution cleanups to lead the group. I wonder how many times that bolded phrase was used in stories about Federal political appointments between early 2009 and early 2017? |
Posted by: Raj 2017-12-21 16:01 |
#7 Just making sure you weren't talking about their primary, unspoken job of funneling money to leftist causes. |
Posted by: gorb 2017-12-21 11:07 |
#6 Actually cleaning the f*cking sites. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-12-21 10:56 |
#5 Which job? |
Posted by: gorb 2017-12-21 10:51 |
#4 Probably concentrated on getting the job done. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-12-21 10:45 |
#3 The 0bama administration. The most transparent rule ever. |
Posted by: gorb 2017-12-21 09:09 |
#2 They're as clean as HIllary's server. |
Posted by: P2kontheroad 2017-12-21 08:02 |
#1 ...a lawyer for EPA has written PEER to say that the task force had no agenda for its meetings, kept no minutes and used no reference materials... I had no idea Jim Comey had anything to do with the EPA. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2017-12-21 05:36 |