EPA again bars reporters from water pollution event
Source: The Hill
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is barring reporters from attending the second day of an event on drinking water pollution from certain manufacturing chemicals.
Journalists from the Associated Press, Politico and other outlets said EPA staff at its Washington, D.C., headquarters didn’t let them come in for the National Leadership Summit on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
The decision to ban reporters follows a high-profile incident Tuesday in which the AP reporter, Ellen Knickmeyer, was allegedly shoved by an EPA guard when she tried to enter.
Knickmeyer and journalists for E&E and CNN were not invited to a short opening part of the summit that some other reporters, including from The Hill, were allowed to attend, so they went to the EPA building to try to get into it.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/388974-epa-again-bars-reports-from-water-pollution-event
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