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**FILE** Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Government in the shadows

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

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EDITORIAL: Playtime for bureaucrats

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this April 12, 2013, file photo, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on President Barack Obama's budget proposal for fiscal year 2014, and the HHS. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Top political appointees use secret email accounts

By Jack Gillum - Associated Press

HURT: EPA sets its sights on eradicating human race

By Charles Hurt

President Obama arrives to make a statement in the Rose Garden of the White House on June 4, 2013, in Washington. (Associated Press)

Obama administration defends secret email accounts

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood tout what they call a "new era for the automobile industry."

EPA contractor lifted weights, ignored rat infestation at taxpayer expense

By Edward Felker - Washington Guardian

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As overflows continue, D.C. plan for sewage tunnels getting messy

By Jeffrey Anderson - The Washington Times

Newly released emails show EPA director’s extensive use of fictional alter ego

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

MICHAELS: ‘My scientists made me shrink your car’

By Patrick J. Michaels

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Gina McCarthy, Obama’s EPA pick, advances on party-line vote

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

**FILE** Gina McCarthy stands on stage in the East Room of the White House in Washington on March 4, 2013, as President Obama announced he would nominate McCarthy to head the EPA. (Associated Press)

Republicans boycott vote for EPA nominee Gina McCarthy

By Stephen Dinan and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

**FILE** Gina McCarthy, Assistant Administrator with the Environmental Protection Agency, speaks at a climate workshop sponsored by the Climate Center at Georgetown University in Washington on Feb. 21, 2013. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Gina McCarthy’s smog machine

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

The high cost of zero

By Paul Driessen - The Washington Times

Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

DRIESSEN: The high cost of zero

By Paul Driessen

$**FILE** A Chesapeake Energy natural gas well site operates near Burlington, Pa. Natural gas locked in dense rock deep beneath Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia and Ohio requires a powerful drilling process called hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” to release it. (Associated Press)$

Methane study, EPA debunk claims of water pollution, climate change from fracking

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Then President-elect Barack Obama checks his BlackBerry in St. Louis.

Feds hide behind potential text message loophole in sunshine law

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** Sen. Mike Johanns, Nebraska Republican, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 13, 2012. (Associated Press)

EPA under fire for flyovers in the Midwest

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Work has begun on the Keystone XL pipeline near Winona, Texas, but whether it will ever carry oil sands from central Canada to Gulf Coast refineries awaits a decision by President Obama. (Tyler [Texas] Morning Telegraph via Associated Press)

EPA takes on State Department over Keystone pipeline

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times