Donald Trumps EPA Is Now Attacking Journalists UpdatedOn Saturday, Associated Press journalists Jason Dearen and Michael Biesecker reported at least five toxic, Houston area Superfund sites in the path of Hurricane Harvey had been deluged with floodwater, potentially distributing the assorted nasty things contained within across a much larger geographical area. The AP report noted while its reporters were able to access the sites via boat, the Environmental Protection Agency was not on scene, and did not provide a timeline for when its staff would be able to visit them. Now the EPA, which is under the control of Donald Trump appointee and longtime EPA hater Scott Pruitt, has fired back with one of the administrations favorite tactics smearing the messenger. L2oxmAUMYPHs5SegLs9oxbIhr.jpg' alt='Watch O Brother, Where Art Thou? Online Ibtimes' title='Watch O Brother, Where Art Thou? Online Ibtimes' />In an extraordinary statement that appeared on the agencys website on Sunday, the EPA called the AP report misleading and attacked Bieseckers audacity and credibility. Heres the truth through aerial imaging, EPA has already conducted initial assessments at 4. The Real Housewives Of New Jersey Season 4 Episode 1. Superfund sites2. EPA wrote. Notably, the EPA tried to bury that its initial assessment was conducted with aerial images, not actual on site assessments, and that the agency had failed to visit at least 1. Superfund sites as of Saturday. That is completely in line with the original AP report. Administrator Pruitt already visited Southeast Texas and is in constant contact with local, state and county officials, the statement continued. BibMe Free Bibliography Citation Maker MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard. Jared Kushner Trumps Court Jew. President Trump, Jewish Agenda Articles. Watch A Haunting In Connecticut Online (2017)'>Watch A Haunting In Connecticut Online (2017). Jared Kushner Trumps Court Jew By Brother Nathanael Kapner January 4, 2017. And EPA, has a team of experts imbedded with other local, state and federal authorities, on the ground responding to Harvey none of which Biesecker included in his story. Unfortunately, the Associated Press Michael Biesecker has a history of not letting the facts get in the way of his story, the EPA continued. Earlier this summer, he made up a meeting that Administrator Pruitt had, and then deliberately discarded information that refuted his inaccurate storyultimately prompting a nation wide correction. Additionally, the Oklahoman took him to task for sensationalized reporting. Biesecker did not make up the story, which is that Pruitt met with Dow CEO Andrew Liveris before deciding not to ban Dows chlorpyrifos pesticide, but instead issued a correction regarding the length of said meeting. In a followup statement, EPA Associate Administrator Liz Bowman claimed the AP was once again attempting to mislead Americans by cherry picking facts, and slammed the report as yellow journalism. The statement also links to far right website Breitbart, one of the presidents favorite websites. Since the EPA did not actually contest any of the facts in the AP article, this looks an awful lot like petty retaliation against journalists for having the temerity to report on things like the EPAs response to an environmental catastropheor any number of other things, like Pruitts extremely sketchy ties to the climate change denial movement, war on environmental science or plans to eliminate huge numbers of EPA staff. Going after reporters might please the big, stupid and extremely petty man in the Oval Office. Errors Of The Human Body Full Movie'>Errors Of The Human Body Full Movie. But thats precisely because responding to bad publicity by doubling down and smearing critics is the way a child would handle things. Never mind the toxic waste potentially spread all around Houstona bunch of Trump appointees egos are the real victims here. Update, 7 4. 0pm On Sunday evening, the original statement on the EPA website became inaccessible. Though the timing appeared to correlate with a temporary outage of the entire EPA website, when the website came back online minutes later, the statement still read Page Not Found Restricted. Other EPA press releases continued to load normally. Obviously, removing the statement from the websiteif indeed that is what happened, rather than a technical errorwould do nothing to mask the fact the EPA wrote it in the first place. An archived version of the statement is available here. Update, September 4th, 2 4. The statement is again visible on the EPA website.