EPA OFFICIAL EXPLAINS TO ELIJAH CUMMINGS THAT FOIA POLICIES HE CALLED ‘TROUBLING’ WERE PUT IN PLACE UNDER OBAMA

Michael Bastasch, Daily Caller, July 16, 2018

Environmental protection Agency (EPA) policies put in place that a top House Democrat railed against were actually put in place under the Obama administration, according to the agency’s top ethics official.

EPA attorney and designated ethics official Kevin Minoli told Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings the processes he called “particularly troubling” were first implemented under the Obama administration.

In a letter to Cummings, Minoli wrote that former Acting EPA Administrator Bob Perciasepe asked him to create the FEAT system in 2013 because the agency “was routinely the subject of litigation, public criticism, and Congressional oversight.”

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