Agency wins FOIA suit over alleged scientific misconduct
By Amanda Reilly, E&E News, Apr. 9, 2018
Federal appellate judges sided with U.S. EPA today in a dispute over its responses to Freedom of Information Act requests on alleged scientific misconduct.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed a lower-court ruling that EPA adequately responded to the requests filed by law firm Hall & Associates on behalf of a coalition of Northeastern cities. The court also penalized the firm for not modifying its requests to EPA.
"Hall does not identify any reversible error in the court's rulings," the judges said in a four-page judgment and memorandum.
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