Lawmakers to investigate EPA FOIA scandal

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Lawmakers to investigate EPA FOIA scandal

1:23 AM 05/18/2013

Republican lawmakers are launching an investigation into claims that the Environmental Protection Agency, while giving preferential treatment to environmental groups, made it harder for conservative groups to obtain government records.

“According to documents obtained by the Committees, EPA readily granted FOIA fee waivers for environmental allies, effectively subsidizing them, while denying fee waivers and making the FOIA process more difficult for states and conservative groups,” wrote Republican lawmakers, including Rep. Darrell Issa and Sens. David Vitter, Chuck Grassley and Jim Inhofe in a letter to the EPA.

Read more: Lawmakers to investigate EPA FOIA scandal | The Daily Caller

 

[Avorysuds]

lol.

 

[RoadVirus]

And the scandals keep on coming. This time, from the mini-dictatorship of the EPA.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Seems to be the recurring theme.

 

[depotoo]

the EPA has already had fallout through the courts -

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana has ordered the United States to pay
$1.7 million to a Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) client, Hubert P. Vidrine, based on findings that it
maliciously prosecuted Vidrine for alleged environmental crimes. In a 142-page ruling issued on Friday
afternoon, the court held that the federal government never even had probable cause to believe that
Vidrine committed a crime, and that the prosecution was pursued because of malice against Vidrine on
the part of Keith Phillips, the EPA agent who headed up the government’s case.

(Rogue EPA Agent Pleads Guilty to Obstructing JusticeBy LAWRENCE HURLEY of Greenwire
Published: October 4, 2011
A former U.S. EPA agent who spearheaded the wrongful indictment of an refining plant manager -- possibly to cover up his affair with an FBI agent -- has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and perjury in a related civil case. )


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The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has handed Texas a victory over the Environmental Protection Agency over the agency's disapproval of Texas' pollution rules related to power plants.

What did the court rule?

According to Business Week, the court ordered the EPA to vacate its ruling and to revisit its evaluation of Texas' pollution rules. It ordered the EPA to conduct this evaluation in an expeditious manner and to limit it to whether the rules meet minimal requirements under the Clean Air Act.
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Supreme Court Rules Unanimously Against EPA “Strong-Arming of Regulated Parties”Damon W. Root|Mar. 21, 2012 11:09 am

The Supreme Court handed down a major win for both property rights and due process rights today in the case of Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency. At issue was the EPA’s use of so-called administrative compliance orders, which are government commands that allowed the agency to regulate the use of private property without also subjecting its actions to judicial review. In a 9-0 ruling, with the majority opinion written by Justice Antonin Scalia and separate concurring opinions filed by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court declared that these EPA actions must be subject to judicial review.


These are just a few.

 

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Not a fucking things going to happen. Watch and learn!