EPA bars AP, CNN from summit on contaminants

[SummerSnow]

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
MAY 22, 2018 | 12:05 PM



WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is barring The Associated Press, CNN and the environmental-focused news organization E&E from a national summit on harmful water contaminants.

The EPA blocked the news organizations from attending Tuesday's Washington meeting, convened by EPA chief Scott Pruitt.

EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox told the barred organizations they were not invited and there was no space for them, but gave no indication of why they specifically were barred.



Pruitt told about 200 people at the meeting that dealing with the contaminants is a "national priority."

Guards barred an AP reporter from passing through a security checkpoint inside the building. When the reporter asked to speak to an EPA public-affairs person, the security guards grabbed the reporter by the shoulders and shoved her forcibly out of the EPA building.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/epa-bars-ap-cnn-summit-contaminants-article-1.4003258


* hiding something

[Sneederbunk]

1. So that's why he has the security.

[Botany]

2. Somebody or bodies have been paid off "to look the other way."

We have been taken over by an enemy of the American people.

[CurtEastPoint]

3. Is this at all legal?

[spanone]

4. welcome to our third world country....it's here. now.

[onecaliberal]

5. They can't ban the press from anything