The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

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Agency

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • POL-7.10: GAO found on 14 December 2015 that the Environmental Protection Agency's use of the Thunderclap platform during the Waters of the United States rulemaking was covert propaganda, and that hyperlinks in an EPA blog post to pages of the Natural Resources Defense Council and Surfrider "constitute grassroots lobbying."

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 862 14 December 2015. U.S. Government Accountability Office: Environmental Protection Agency - Application of Publicity or Propaganda and Anti-Lobbying Provisions, B-326944
  • Exhibit 1014 22 August 2018. U.S. Government Accountability Office: Environmental Protection Agency, Application of Publicity or Propaganda and Anti-Lobbying Provisions to Then-Administrator's Appearance in a Trade Association's Video, B-329504
  • Exhibit 1015 3 October 2019. U.S. Government Accountability Office: Environmental Protection Agency, Application of a Publicity or Propaganda Provision to an EPA Tweet, B-330107