Word: epa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three doctored transcripts have been discovered, all of them involving hearings of the House Government Operations Committee. In addition to the EPA hearing, the panel's 1980 deliberations on an attempt by the Hunt family of Texas to manipulate the silver market and its 1982 discussions on synthetic fuel production were surreptitiously revised. "Some staff person was overzealous," says House Speaker Tip O'Neill. "He didn't do it with instructions from any member." The Massachusetts Democrat said that the culprit, if caught, should be fired...
...Gregg also said, "There were no partisan attacks on the EPA's failure to come into New Hampshire," which was changed to "There were no partisan aspects to the EPA'S activities in New Hampshire...
Ruckelshaus wades into EPA...
That may require the fullest exercise of his considerable political and personal skills. Only hours before the President hailed "a new beginning" for the agency, the House of Representatives voted, 413 to 0, to hold former EPA Official Rita Lavelle (head of the hazardous-waste program until she was fired in February) in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena to testify before a House subcommittee. Meanwhile, the Justice Department was reported to be considering a grand jury investigation into allegations that Lavelle and former EPA General Counsel Robert Perry committed perjury in their testimony before Congress...
However, new allegations continued to surface about EPA's management of the toxic-waste Superfund. In a press conference on Thursday, Representative John Dingell of Michigan charged that his committee's investigation into the agency had uncovered new evidence of wrongdoing by EPA officials. Dingell referred to a memorandum that Lavelle sent on Sept. 13, 1982, to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver. In it she proposed that the announcement of some Superfund grants in New Jersey be timed to benefit the election campaigns of two Republicans and that the President make an appearance...