
<p>Environmental Protection Agency officials posted another batch of Windsorgate emails Friday but the conservative think tank at the center of the scandal said today that missing from the release "are what should be the dominant class of records covered by our request seeking records: Gina McCarthy discussing her biggest assignment, the Obama administration's 'war on coal.'"</p><p>McCarthy has been nominated to succeed Lisa Jackson as EPA administrator and faces what is likely to be a tough Senate confirmation process, so the emails are sure to be a major issue during the coming hearings.</p><p>McCarthy is now EPA's assistant administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation, which plays a central role in the agency's coal regulatory program. She has been government payrolls throughout her 25-year career, according to her official EPA biography.</p><p>But in a statement to be released today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute said "those emails from her that are not withheld in full by EPA are typically redacted in full... For dozens of pages at a time, EPA withholds all the content of emails, claiming it need not reveal the contents because they were pre-decisional - discussions that are antecedent to the adoption of a formal agency policy, according the well-established law."</p><p><a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/think-tank-claims-agency-foia-officials-are-covering-up-for-obamas-nominee-to-head-epa/article/2524538">Keep reading...</a></p>