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Former EPA Admin Fights Back Against Accusations of Using Personal Email to Hide Official Business

  • The Hill, Tuesday, September 10, 2013 12:51 PM
Former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson is fighting allegations that she used her personal email address to hide agency business from public view. Jackson will appear before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee at a hearing on "preventing violations of federal transparency laws" on Tuesday. She is accused by Republicans of using a personal email account to do official business. "The principle reason I wanted to come here today is to make it perfectly clear that it was my practice to ensure that any official business conducted by me or through my email accounts was appropriately captured for record keeping purposes," she stated in testimony submitted in advance of Tuesday's hearing. 

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