Congress Now Set To Investigate Obama EPA Scandal…

by Ulsterman on May 18, 2013 with 1 Comments in News

Another scandal is now set to hammer the Obama White House – this time detailing how the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency abused its authority to give favorable treatment to liberal groups while at the same time attempting to hinder or punish conservative organizations. Yet more proof of tyrannical government in the Age of Obama…


(via The Daily Caller)

Lawmakers to investigate EPA FOIA scandal

Republican lawmakers are launching an investigation into claims that the Environmental Protection Agency, while giving preferential treatment to environmental groups, made it harder for conservative groups to obtain government records.

…The free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute obtained documents showing that since January 2012, the EPA granted fee waivers for 75 out of 82 FOIA requests from major environmental groups and only denied seven of them, giving green groups a 92 percent success rate.

At the same time, the EPA rejected or ignored 21 out of 26 fee waiver requests from conservative groups.

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…“We know the Obama EPA has completely mismanaged FOIA, but granting fee waivers for their friends in the far-left environmental community, while simultaneously blocking conservative leaning groups from gaining access to information is really no different than the IRS disaster,” said Vitter. LINK

http://theulstermanreport.com/2013/0...a-epa-scandal/