First the IRS, Now the EPA Accused of Destroying Agency Communications
Photo Credit: Fox News By Judson Berger. The Environmental Protection Agency, on the heels of the controversy at the IRS over missing emails, is facing a probe of its own over whether it improperly scrubbed text messages.
The EPA inspector general’s office announced this week it is launching an audit into the agency’s policies for keeping text messages. The audit was prompted by a complaint from Republicans on the House science committee, worried the EPA may have “deleted thousands of text messages” that should have been preserved.
Jennifer Kaplan, spokeswoman for the EPA inspector general’s office, confirmed the complaint prompted the audit.
“Our auditors were persuaded that this is something that they needed to look into,” she told FoxNews.com.
The official IG notice said they would examine whether the EPA followed policies on preserving text messages, or whether they deleted or destroyed messages that should have been saved — and if so, whether anyone was disciplined.(Read more about “EPA Accused of Destroying Texts” HERE)
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Louisiana Residents Fear EPA’S Plan to Burn Explosives Near Their Land
By Chris Butler. The Environmental Protection Agency has a plan in rural Webster Parish to burn 15 million pounds of propellant explosives, originally designed for military use, into the northern Louisiana atmosphere.
People exposed to it might develop cancer or blood pressure problems or even pass on birth defects to their children, experts warn.
Parish residents fear these toxins, which could rise two miles into the atmosphere depending on weather conditions, might eventually cover their entire corner of the state or spread into Texas or Arkansas.
Puzzlingly enough, officials with the Environmental Protection Agency, who otherwise won’t hesitate to force landowners to go through long, costly environmental impact statements, aren’t doing the same here.
Maybe it’s because this is one of the EPA’s own special projects. (Read more from this story HERE)
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