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Environmental Protection Agency records involving the processing of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

Records from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to American Oversight's request for records regarding EPA official John Konkus' ability to review grant solicitations and seeking grant decisions.

Records of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s sent communications to non-government email addresses. American Oversight sought these records to shed light on Perdue’s actions and communications during his tenure as secretary. These records contain communications with Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Loeffler’s husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, as well as with Louise Linton (Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s wife), former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Stephen Censky before his appointment to the agency.

The Department of Energy released 83 pages of records in response to our lawsuit for travel records from former Secretary Perry's May 2019 trip to Ukraine.

FOIA request to the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) seeking records to shed light on the impact on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) staffing from the plan to relocate the agency’s headquarters to Colorado.

FOIA request to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) seeking records to shed light on the impact on BLM staffing from the plan to relocate the agency’s headquarters to Colorado.

Loyalty over truth and political advantage over public service and safety are hallmarks of authoritarianism.

Lawsuit filed by American Oversight on behalf of Western Values Project against the Department of the Interior (DOI) for Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s communications, including phone call logs, text messages, a list of Google documents shared with Bernhardt, and emails from both his professional and personal email addresses. This lawsuit also seeks travel records processed by ConcurGov from January to June 2019.

A Department of Energy (DOE) recusal statement for Chief of Staff Brian McCormack in response to American Oversight's request for ethics determinations, recusals, and waivers regarding McCormack.