EPA Chief Loses Round in Court Over Providing Data Behind His Global Warming Comment

Government Executive

A federal judge scolded EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt on Friday for failing to respond to a nonprofit’s Freedom of Information Act request for the research behind his public claim that he doesn’t agree human activity is a primary contributor to global warming. “EPA’s strained attempt to raise an epistemological smokescreen will not work here to evade its obligations under the FOIA,” the judge wrote.

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