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Kathianne
03-24-2016, 08:01 AM
The 'Greeny Interests' use EPA to circumvent .gov accts:

http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/23/epa-execs-rely-on-private-emails-to-talk-with-lobbyists/


EPA Execs Rely On Private Emails To Talk With LobbyistsETHAN BARTON (http://dailycaller.com/author/ethan-barton/)

11:59 AM 03/23/2016



There is new evidence senior Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials routinely use private email accounts to conduct government business, this time to pass along information from an energy lobbyist.

Michael J. Bradley, president and founder of an energy consulting firm that represents numerous green advocacy groups, described his preference for using a private email to communicate with EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy regarding an agency regulation, according to documents obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) through a Freedom of Information Act request.

“Joe, Would you please send this email to Gina for me? I would have sent it to her directly with a cc to you but I don’t have a private email address for her and would prefer to not use an office email address (http://eelegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/MJBradley-using-Goffman-private-account-to-corresp-w-Goffman-McCarthy-1.pdf),” Bradley emailed to EPA Senior Counsel Joe Goffman.

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The rest of the email was addressed to “Gina” and regarded the Cross-State Pollution Rule, noting companies Bradley represents, according to E&E Legal, want to support the regulation.


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