WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional auditors say the Environmental Protection Agency broke the law in a social media campaign intended to generate public support for a controversial rule to protect small streams and wetlands from development.
The Government Accountability Office said EPA’s campaign violated restrictions against lobbying and propaganda by federal agencies. The agency blitzed social media in a campaign that urged the public to submit comments on the draft rule. The effort reached at least 1.8 million people.
Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma said the GAO finding confirms what he has long suspected: “that EPA will go to extreme lengths and even violate the law to promote its activist environmental agenda.”
Inhofe and other GOP lawmakers have vowed to block the rule as an example of overreach by the Obama administration.
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