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Eric Lipton
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Ethics group in Washington @CREWcrew files a new complaint against EPA air office boss Bill Wehrum, a former energy industry lawyer, based in part on story and documents NYT published in August 2018. Here is a link to the full ethics complaint. documentcloud.org/documents/4776…
Here is the story from NYT in August 2018 nytimes.com/2018/08/19/us/…
And here is a large collection of documents that back up some of the points raised in the story--documents now cited in the new ethics complaint. documentcloud.org/documents/4776…
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