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mahatmakanejeeves

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6. EPA says story was reported from "comfort of Washington." Photos, video, details suggest otherwise.

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Sun Sep 3, 2017, 07:39 PM

Sep 2017

I want to hear the administrator address this.

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EPA says this story was reported from "comfort of Washington." Photos, video, details in report suggest otherwise.

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The EPA press release links to a Breitbart story blasting the AP’s reporting as “fake news”

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Never seen a federal agency issue a statement quite like this before, personally attacking a reporter

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EPA now appears to have deleted or restricted it's statement blasting the AP's reporting. https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-response-aps-misleading-story …

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EPA says Superfund sites around Houston aren't accessible to its personnel. AP got to seven of them. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2017 OP

No surprise. Republican administrations are both incompetent and malicious. SharonClark Sep 2017 #1

it's hard to say whether they are.... lastlib Sep 2017 #2

Don't forget "butt lazy" RainCaster Sep 2017 #3

Any way you look at it decades of reduced funding by Rethugs in Congress are the real cause. Ford_Prefect Sep 2017 #4

"Many well greased palms on BOTH sides of the aisle" Eko Sep 2017 #5

EPA says story was reported from "comfort of Washington." Photos, video, details suggest otherwise. mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2017 #6

EPA Response To The AP's Misleading Story mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2017 #7