Last March, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Administrator Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, was interviewed by CBS News’s Major Garrett. There, Wheeler told Garrett that he believed drinking water is the “biggest environmental threat” because “most of the threats from climate change are 50 to 75 years out.”
Wheeler’s remarks quickly drew attention from climate change activists. In response, the environmental organization Sierra Club filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) demanding that the EPA produce records to support Wheeler’s assertion. That simple request turned into a lawsuit in October after the EPA refused to turn over documents. Continue reading.