"EPA: Agency's FOIA Adversary Now On The Inside"

"Christopher Horner, a relentless hunter of U.S. EPA documents, is now allowed inside the agency's walls.

Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is a member of President-elect Donald Trump's agency landing team for EPA, the transition team announced Friday. As part of the landing team, Horner can have access to EPA facilities and records — including non-public information, with some restrictions — under a memorandum of understanding signed between the outgoing and incoming administrations.

Access to EPA documents is something Horner has always prized. He has hounded EPA for years on all matter of records — emails, text messages and smartphone bills, often from its top brass — first through Freedom of Information Act requests and then frequently by litigation. His biggest discovery was an alternative government email address used by former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson under the alias "Richard Windsor," named after Jackson's dog and the town where she grew up.

The fact that Horner is on Trump's transition team for EPA worries some former agency officials."

Kevin Bogardus reports for Greenwire December 12, 2016.