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 Stories About: politics AND shenanigans AND Barbara Boxer AND US EPA
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Cheney reaction
Ex-EPA official details White House interference on climate action |
Kate Sheppard |
08 Jul 2008 |
Gristmill |
| In a letter [PDF] made public today, former deputy EPA administrator Jason Burnett indicates that both the Office of the Vice President and the Council on Environmental Quality have attempted to censor discussion of the consequences that global warming poses to human health. Burnett, who went public about the administration's obstruction after leaving the EPA in early June, detailed the interference in a letter to Environment and Public Works Chair Barbara B ... |
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| Topics: Barbara Boxer, climate, jackassery, Muckraker, news, politics, shenanigans, US EPA (all these topics) |
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21 questions
Whitehouse and Boxer want answers from EPA's Johnson on Gade ouster |
Kate Sheppard |
13 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) sent a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson today, calling for information about the circumstances surrounding the ouster of Mary Gade, the administrator of the agency's Midwest regional office. Gade was allegedly fired after attempting to force Dow Chemical to clean up dioxin pollution around the company's Midland, Mich., plant. Whitehouse and Boxer had 21 questions for Johnson regarding Gade ... |
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| Topics: Barbara Boxer, Muckraker, news, politics, shenanigans, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Missing Johnson
EPW subcommittee seeks answers on politicization in EPA, gets few |
Kate Sheppard |
08 May 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The U.S. EPA is committed to transparency, representatives of the agency testified yesterday before a subcommittee of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The hearing was called to look into recent allegations of politicization and secrecy within the agency. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson -- the man everyone wants to hear from on the subject -- didn't accept the invitation to attend, so George Gray, EPA assistant administrator for research and devel ... |
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| Topics: Barbara Boxer, Muckraker, news, politics, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, shenanigans, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Paper Travail
EPA provides only some documents related to California waiver |
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22 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:17 AM on 22 Jan 2008 The U.S. EPA has given Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) only some documents related to the agency's refusal to allow California to regulate car greenhouse-gas emissions -- not all, as she had asked. Missing or redacted documents include a presentation said to predict that EPA would lose if sued over its recalcitrance (which, of course, it has been). Citing executive privilege, the EPA explained in ... |
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| Topics: Barbara Boxer, California, greenhouse-gas emissions, jackassery, news, politics, shenanigans, US EPA (all these topics) |
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