Flint MI Representative's Staff Not Allowed To Attend EPA's Water Pollution Conference

[hatrack]

Rep. Dan Kildee (D), who represents Flint, Mich., said a staffer was not allowed in to a portion of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) summit on drinking water contamination this week.

“My staff was not allowed to attend today’s @EPA #PFAS summit, and I represent communities affected by drinking water contamination,” Kildee tweeted Wednesday. “@EPAScottPruitt’s lack of transparency and willingness to deny access to Members of Congress and the media is deeply troubling.”

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Kildee’s chief of staff, Mitchell Rivard, told The Hill on Thursday that the staffer who handles Flint's water contamination issue was barred from entering on the second day. “Congressman Kildee was never invited to the EPA’s PFAS summit,” Rivard said in a statement. “After our office asked to attend, the EPA would only allow our office to attend select parts of the summit, and one of the congressman’s staff was actually turned away at the door during Wednesday’s sessions.”

Rivard told The Hill that the incident is part of a larger issue of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt attempting to “limit access at a taxpayer-funded meeting.” “The public has a right to know what’s happening inside their government,” Rivard said.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/389213-democrat-epa-spar-over-attending-water-meetings

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. What an OUTRAGE.....

To be barred from a meeting that has affected the people there for years now and Rick Snyder has been derilict in his duty at the state level, not to mention Republican blockage in Congress to aid this city.

[lostnfound]

2. Tells the public all they need to know about whose interests are being served

If Pruitt is holding a water pollution conference, it’s probably to find ways and excuses to privatize water systems across the country, or to pass all costs onto the little people.