WHY IS EPA REFUSING TO LET THE MEDIA INTERVIEW A SUPERFUND OFFICIAL? America’s most dangerous environmental pollution sites are being cleaned up by the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program at a cost of $1 billion annually.

One might think that removing these threats to the public health is something the agency would be happy to discuss with the media. Well, apparently not if you are that part of the media known as “Ethan Barton of the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group.” 

He’s been pressing for weeks for interviews with Superfund officials, seeking information about how the program goes about its business, what it costs, who it uses for contracts and all the other mundane questions reporters like to ask government officials. But EPA’s public affairs office appears to have put the Superfund off limits to journalists, according to Barton. What is EPA hiding?