EPA slams reporter over story on flooded toxic waste sites in Houston
Source: CBS News
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a press release Sunday that slammed a reporter by name over a story about the flooding of toxic waste sites in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
"Yesterday, the Associated Press' Michael Biesecker wrote an incredibly misleading story about toxic land sites that are under water," said the release written by Associate EPA Administrator Liz Bowman.
It went on to say that he "had the audacity to imply that agencies aren't being responsive to the devastating effects of Hurricane Harvey." Beyond stating that the report was inaccurate, the EPA accused Biesecker of creating "panic" and of politicizing the work of first responders "who are actually in the affected area," as opposed to Biesecker, who the EPA stated was "reporting from the comfort of Washington."
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However, Biesecker's report says that this information was not released by the EPA until "hours after the AP published its first report." Biesecker went on to point out that the EPA said it "had not yet been able to physically visit the Houston-area sites, saying the sites had 'not been accessible by response personnel,'" though it had checked on Superfund sites in Corpus Christi, which had "no significant damage."
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-slams-reporter-over-story-on-flooded-toxic-waste-sites-in-houston/
Looks like the EPA has been Trumpified and is joining his war on journalism.
Sad.
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BULL SHIT!!!
It has been castrated!
Naming Scott Pruitt as head of it is like naming OJ Simpson as chief investigator of the Nicole Brown/Ron Goodman murders (actually, I think it is worse than that, but it's the best analogy I could think of in my rage!).
What a horrible thing this is for our health and safety.
I have never seen the EPA issue such a shameful, unprofessional press release. They have never personnally attacked a reporter in a press release. Liz Bowman's press release is an abomination.
The EPA needs to be renamed. It is no longer the Environmental Protection Agency. It is now the Trump Protection Agency.
Has been turned into the enemy.
By and large. With holdout dedicated civil servants doing their best against the dumpsters.
dump is doing the work the koch brothers want. And what they want is to destroy the Federal Government.
The idiots who voted for dump can take credit, along with election rigging on a variety of fronts. But this couldn't have happened if enough morans didn't fall for the con.
