Another few hours and another FOI request. This time it's the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who are targeting correspondence of the hard-left senators who have been at the forefront of harassing sceptic scientists:
To EPA’s National Freedom of Information Officer,
On behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), please consider this request pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552 et seq.
Please provide us, within twenty working days,1 copies of all email and text message correspondence over the past two years between certain EPA Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations employees and the offices of Senators Barbara Boxer, Ed Markey and/or Sheldon Whitehouse, which correspondence contains one or more keywords. as described herein.
Specifically, we seek email and text message correspondence on EPA-assigned or other accounts, and any attachments, that were
1) sent to or from...Laura Vaught, Joyce Frank, Nicole Distefano and/or Josh Lewis, and
2) sent to or from ...Sen. Boxer, Sen. Whitehouse, and/or Sen. Markey or anyone with a @EPW.senate.gov, @boxer.Senate.gov, @whitehouse.Senate.gov, and/or @markey.Senate.gov address or (e.g., in the case of text /SMS messages) otherwise to or from anyone who at the time worked in one of those offices, and
c) which communications are dated from January 1, 2013 through the date you process this request, and which
d) is to or from or cites or refers to Tom Steyer, his climate advocacy group NextGen (this also includes but is not limited to any email among these parties that anywhere includes a @nextgenclimate.org address), Fahr (including but limited to discussing Ted White or anywhere including twhite@fahrllc.com2), denier, denial or deniers, Climate Investigations Center, Greenpeace, Kert Davies, Energy Foundation, Center for American Progress, Sierra Club, and/or Natural Resources Defense Council or NRDC...
That should set the cat among the pigeons.