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FOIA News: EDF sues EPA for records of correspondence with conservative think tank

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Trump EPA Sued Over Refusal to Release Heartland Institute Communications

Marianne Lavelle, Inside Climate News, Mar. 15, 2018

Two environmental groups filed suit Thursday to force the Environmental Protection Agency to disclose its correspondence with the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank that has led a years-long campaign to discredit climate science.

The complaint by the Southern Environmental Law Center and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) suggests that contact between the EPA and Heartland has been far more extensive than previously known. An EPA Freedom of Information Act official told EDF last year that an agency search had yielded "between 200 to 600 records" of such correspondence, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court in Virginia.

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