House panel wants enviro activist group's communications with EPA's McCarthy

A House committee investigating the destruction of more than 5,000 official cellular telephone text messages by the Environmental Protection Agency wants a major nonprofit activist group to provide copies of all its communications with Gina McCarthy, the agency’s chief, on the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

“You and Administrator McCarthy have apparently worked closely together on important issues, and as your text message to the administrator indicates, you have similar goals on Keystone XL,” Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas., told League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski in a letter made public Tuesday.