‘Let me say it as simply as I can: Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.’

Anthony Watts Watts Up With That? 2/22/2013

That headline is from this article in The Atlantic. Below is from Globalwarming.org

What EPA Transparency Looks Like in Most Open, Honest Administration Ever

This time, we got actual emails … that revealed a lot … about the fine art of redaction. Remember, this is the production of […]

Another EPA Official Resigns

Another snared in secret email probe, says GOP senator

C. J. Ciaramella The Washington Free Beacon 2/19/2013

A top Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official under congressional investigation for using a private email address to conduct government business is stepping down.

EPA Region 8 administrator James Martin is resigning this week, according to a press release […]

Appeals court to EPA: Don’t you think you’re being a little overly optimistic with the biofuels, there?

Erika Johnsen HotAir 1/28/2013

The Environmental Protection Agency is getting taken to court left and right for their many overzealous regulations and intrusions into private industry, with varying results– but on Friday, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that, why no, the EPA may not punish the oil industry for their noncompliance […]

The spreading scandal at the EPA

Russell Cook American Thinker 1/16/2013

A potentially major scandal is unfolding at the EPA, as the agency’s former head, Lisa Jackson, has been discovered to have used an email account under an alias for communication within her agency, evidently to avoid disclosure when FOIA requests ask to see her communications sent under her genuine name.

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DOJ to release emails from Lisa Jackson’s alias email account

EPA chief Jackson resigns amid transparency investigations into secret emails

Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller 12/28/2012

A Washington attorney says that Environmental Protection Agency Chief Administrator Lisa Jackson’s resignation and investigations into the EPA’s use of secret email accounts are not coincidental.

“Life’s full of coincidences, but this is too many,” Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior […]

Perhaps, like Sunstein, Lisa Jackson's work here is done

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson resigns

Associated Press via The Daily Caller 12/27/2012

The Obama administration’s chief environmental watchdog, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, is stepping down after a nearly four-year tenure marked by high-profile brawls over global warming pollution, the Keystone XL oil pipeline, new controls on coal-fired plants and several other hot-button issues that affect […]

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