Could the EPA Chief Really be ‘Worse than Lois Lerner’?

Photo Credit: APA new court ruling may force more transparency out of the Environmental Protection Agency.

That’s the hope of Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He points out the EPA has been involved with false identification in e-mail accounts, conducted agency business on private e-mail accounts and is now being held accountable for destroying thousands of public records in the form of text messages.

Horner goes so far as to say EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy is “worse than Lois Lerner,” the central figure in the Internal Revenue Service targeting scandal.

“I don’t think any agency can compare with this agency,” Horner told TheBlaze, regarding the EPA. “For once, the EPA has been told it cannot do whatever it wants to do under the law. That is news.”

Horner was referring to a federal judge’s ruling Thursday that called it “implausible” that EPA officials could be missing 5,000 text messages from government-issued mobile phones and not suspect the destruction of records. The decision allows a lawsuit to proceed seeking an injunction to prevent further document destruction by the agency.

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