FOIA Number: EPA-17-0193

EPA June 2017 Emails Between Top Staffers And Outside Individuals

September 10, 2018
Environmental Protection Agency emails between top staffers including Chief of Staff Ryan Jackson, Acting Deputy Administrator Mike Flynn, and Deputy Chief of Staff John Reeder and outside individuals, including congressional staff and energy industry representatives, during the first half of the month of June 2017.

American Oversight Statement on EPA Admission of Interference with FOIA

July 13, 2018
Nonpartisan ethics watchdog American Oversight released the following statement after a newly-published transcript revealed that political appointees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) routinely interfered with processing of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

Update – Pattern and Practice Lawsuit: Fighting EPA’s Incorrect FOIA Denials

April 10, 2018
American Oversight today filed a motion for summary judgment in our case against the EPA over the agency’s practice of wrongly rejecting Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. We’re asking the court to order the EPA to stop its pattern of denying FOIA requests it would rather not respond to by claiming the requests aren’t “reasonably described.”

Motion for Summary Judgment American Oversight v. EPA Pattern and Practice

April 10, 2018
Motion for summary judgment filed by American Oversight in our lawsuit asking the court to order the EPA to end its practice of inappropriately denying FOIA requests as not "reasonably described."

Complaint: American Oversight v EPA – Pattern and Practice

February 16, 2018
Lawsuit filed by American Oversight seeking an injunction to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from continuing its practice of denying reasonably described Freedom of Information Act requests. The EPA has repeatedly refused to conduct searches for records requested under FOIA - such as emails between agency officials and outside entities - and the agency has wrongly argued that any request that doesn't include a keyword is inadequately described.

EPA Denial of Request for Emails Pruitt and Staff to Non Gov Accounts

July 28, 2017
EPA denied American Oversight's request (EPA-17-0193) for emails between Scott Pruitt or senior EPA staff and email accounts not ending in .gov.

FOIA Request to EPA Emails Pruitt and Staff to Non Gov Accounts

June 23, 2017
Emails between Scott Pruitt or senior EPA staff and email accounts not ending in .gov.