The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market group, “is suing the Environmental Protection Agency over its extremely slow release of emails related to chief Lisa Jackson’s alias email account.” The Daily Caller,
CEI says that at its current pace, EPA will fulfill the group’s government records request in 100 years…
The EPA says there are about 120,000 records related to CEI’s Freedom of Information Act request, but the agency claims it can only process about 100 records per month — meaning CEI’s FOIA request will be fully processed in about 100 years…
What rankles CEI most about the EPA’s slow record processing pace is that the agency has already been criticized in the past for stonewalling FOIA requests from conservative groups and states critical of agency rules.
In 2013, CEI obtained documents showing that since January 2012, the agency granted fee waivers for 92 percent of FOIA requests from major environmental groups all while rejecting or ignoring 81 percent of fee-waiver requests from conservative groups.
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