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FOIA News: News media requesters zeroed in on EPA after Trump win

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Media FOIA Requests to EPA Spiked After Trump Election, Data Reveal

Analysis: Outlets such as NYT, WaPo grew FOIA-happy immediately after Trump took office

By Brent Scher, Wash. Free Beacon, Mar. 20, 2019  

The number of Freedom of Information Act requests the Environmental Protection Agency received from mainstream outlets such as the New York Times and Washington Post spiked immediately after Republican President Donald Trump took office, according to a Free Beacon analysis of FOIA requests by the media from 2013 to the present.

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