"Rep. Dan Kildee, who represents Flint, Mich., the site of the 2014 lead water crisis, asked the Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general on Thursday to conduct an investigation into the agency’s decision to limit public access to a summit this week on dangerous chemicals that have contaminated water supplies.
“Unfortunately, the EPA’s actions to block journalists and elected officials fit a disturbing pattern by the Trump administration when it comes to transparency in government. The actions by the Trump administration and Administrator [Scott] Pruitt give me great concern about the lack of accountability and transparency in our government,” the Michigan Democrat wrote in a letter to EPA Inspector General Arthur Elkins obtained by the Washington Examiner.
Kildee said his staff was not allowed to attend the second day of the day-and-a-half summit at EPA headquarters Wednesday."
Josh Siegel reports for the Washington Examiner May 24, 2018.
SEE ALSO:
Text of 5/24/2018 Kildee Letter to EPA Inspector General
"Flint Representative’s Staff Barred From Attending EPA Chemical Summit" (Inhabitat)
"EPA, Kildee Spar Over Access To National PFAS Summit" (Flint Journal)
"Kildee Calls For Investigation Into EPA, Administrator" (WNEM)
"At EPA Summit, Michigan Presses Feds To Come Up With PFAS Standards" (Michigan Radio)
"EPA Continues To Face Questions About Blocking Public From Chemicals Summit" (ABC News)
NASW Board Objects to EPA Excluding Reporters (National Association of Science Writers)
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