Rep. Dan Kildee asks inspector general to probe EPA for limiting access to chemical summit

Published May 24, 2018 7:33pm ET



Rep. Dan Kildee, who represents Flint, Mich., the site of the 2014 lead water crisis, asked the Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general on Thursday to conduct an investigation into the agency’s decision to limit public access to a summit this week on dangerous chemicals that have contaminated water supplies.

“Unfortunately, the EPA’s actions to block journalists and elected officials fit a disturbing pattern by the Trump administration when it comes to transparency in government. The actions by the Trump administration and Administrator [Scott] Pruitt give me great concern about the lack of accountability and transparency in our government,” the Michigan Democrat wrote in a letter to EPA Inspector General Arthur Elkins obtained by the Washington Examiner.

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