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To: From: Sent: Subject: Alexandra Dunn; Ex. 6 - Personal Privacy Jackson, Ryan ^ Mon 11/13/2017 12:14:56 PM Re: New Republic Piece on R2 I can see why we didn't respond. Ryan Jackson Chief of Staff U.S. EPA Ex. 6 - Personal Privacy On Nov 13, 2017, at 6:58 AM, Alexandra Dunn *1 Ex. 6 - Personal Privacy jvrote: https://newrepublic.com/articli 50/can-republican-restore-integrity-scott-pruitts-epa Shared via the Google app Sent from my iPhone 17cv1906 Sierra Club v. EPA - 6/22 Production ED 001523 00004994-00001 To: Dimitri. Karakitsos@hklaw.com[Dimitri. Karakitsos@hklaw.com] Cc: rich.gold@hklaw.com[rich.gold@hklaw.com] From: Jackson, Ryan Sent: Fri 5/12/2017 12:26:32 PM Subject: Re: The Daily Caller: EPA Chief Orders Faster Superfund Cleanup Of Nation's Most Polluted Areas, 5/11/17 10 sites? Whatever. This place. Ryan Jackson Chief of Staff ,.iLS..JEPA__________ ; Ex. 6 - Personal Privacy i > On May 11,2017, at 10:00 PM, "Dimitri.Karakitsos@hklaw.com" <Dimitri.Karakitsos@hklaw.com> wrote: > > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/trump-environmental-chief-to-prioritizetoxic-sites-cleanup/2017/05/11/45c4c238-3668-11e7-ab03aa29f656f13e_story.html?utm_term=.d78a875745a3 > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 11,2017, at 8:52 PM, Jackson, Ryan <jackson.ryan@epa.gov<mailto:jackson.ryan@epa.gov wrote: > > > > From: McGonagle, Kevin > Sent: Thursday, May 11,2017 2:36 PM >To: AO OPA OMR CLIPS <AO_OPA_OMR_CLIPS@epa.gov<mailto:AO_OPA_OMR_CLIPS@epa.gov > Subject: The Daily Caller: EPA Chief Orders Faster Superfund Cleanup Of Nation's Most Polluted Areas, 5/11/17 > > The Daily Caller > http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/11/epa-chief-orders-faster-superfund-cleanup-of-nations-most-pollutedareas/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__dailyealler.com_2017_05_11_epa-2Dchief2Dorders-2Dfaster-2Dsuperfund-2Dcleanup-2Dof-2Dnations-2Dmost-2Dpolluted-2Dareas_&d=DwMFg&c=14jPbF1hWnYXveJ5rixtS_Fo3DRrpL7HUwJDAc4Hlc&r=xfMtk3mid4hVxgXakwJXh595MsPz3y38nFgPCeffVxo& m=m999VcM4QvvBGI22KzLIRWxbDLC64lgKlhYHtEDnBSo&s=ITPCtZwGQBss0_6ym9hxgwl7gXI7Xoq7 15OBZ9Gkn0M&e=> > EPA Chief Orders Faster Superfund Cleanup Of Nation's Most Polluted Areas > By Ethan Barton 5/11/17 2:22 PM > > Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt is pushing officials to streamline and speedup the Superfund process to cleanup the nation's most polluted sites, a problem highlighted by The Daily Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group in 2016. > "I am making it a priority to ensure contaminated sites get cleaned up," Pruitt said in a statement Wednesday announcing a directive he signed Monday. "We will be more hands-on to ensure proper oversight and attention to the Superfund program at the highest levels of the agency and to create consistency across states." > The Superfund program is tasked with cleaning sites on the National Priorities List, which are the most contaminated locations in the country. Pruitt's directive strips lower-ranking EPA officials of the ability to 17cv1906 Sierra Club v. EPA - 6/22 Production ED 001523 00004995-00001 approve cleanups that cost at least $50 million and keeps that authority with the administrator to eliminate red tape. > The EPA administrator has always held the power to approve cleanups, but "had been delegated many layers into the bureaucracy, resulting in confusion among stakeholders and delayed revitalization efforts," the agency said. > Pruitt's directive follows multiple reports by TheDCNF last year exposing unexplained cleanup delays that have plagued the Superfund program since its inception, resulting in extremely polluted sites being left contaminated for years, or even decades. The delays are often the result of complex clean-ups required and numerous bureaucratic hurdles. > More than 1,700 sites have been added to the Superfund program since 1983, but less than 400 have been fully cleaned, TheDCNF previously reported. It took 13 years on average to decontaminate each of those sites. > Meanwhile, people living near more than 300 Superfund sites have faced health hazards for years, or sometimes decades. In fact, the EPA doesn't know if 117 sites endanger humans, despite being part of the Superfund program for more than 30 years. > Pollution - including contaminants from military activities - at one uncleaned site near Philadelphia has threatened nearby humans for nearly 50 years, and a surrounding community faced an increased number of cancer cases, a DCNF investigation uncovered. > TheDCNF also revealed nearly $6.3 billion collected in the EPA's 1,300 "special accounts" -- slushfund like bank accounts linked to specific Superfund sites -- without oversight from Congress or external review. > > > Kevin McGonagle > Office of Media Relations Intern > U.S. Environmental Protection Agency > Telephone: (202)-564-4524 > mcgonagle.kevin@epa.gov<mailto:music.madelena@epa.gov> > > > > > NOTE: This e-mail is from a law firm, Holland & Knight LLP ("H&K"), and is intended solely for the use of the individual(s) to whom it is addressed. If you believe you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete the e-mail from your computer and do not copy or disclose it to anyone else. If you are not an existing client of H&K, do not construe anything in this e-mail to make you a client unless it contains a specific statement to that effect and do not disclose anything to H&K in reply that you expect it to hold in confidence. If you properly received this e-mail as a client, co-counsel or retained expert of H&K, you should maintain its contents in confidence in order to preserve the attorney-client or work product privilege that may be available to protect confidentiality. 17cv1906 Sierra Club v. EPA 6/22 Production ED 001523 00004995-00002 To: From: Sent: Subject: Wehrum, William L.[wwehrum@hunton.com] Jackson, Ryan Fri 6/2/2017 11:39:33 PM RE: Checking In Great news and big thanks. Looking forward to it. I think Pruitt would appreciate another sit down in the near future on next steps like you did before. Thanks. From: Wehrum, William L. [mailto:wwehrum@hunton.com] Sent: Friday, June 2, 2017 6:28 PM To: Jackson, Ryan <jackson.ryan@epa.gov> Subject: Checking In Ryan - Wanted to let you know that I completed and submitted the last of my forms this afternoon. OPP should have everything they need to move this along. \I Bill Wehrum MS Partner wwehrum@hunton.com p 202.955.1637 bio | vCard j bloq | Linkedln Hunton & Williams LLP 2200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20037 hunton.com 17cv1906 Sierra Club v. EPA 6/22 Production ED 001523 00004996-00001 17cv1906 Sierra Club v. EPA - 6/22 Production ED 001523 00004996-00002 To: From: Sent: Subject: Michael K. Henry[mhenry@alpinegroup.com]; Bolen, Brittany[bolen.brittany@epa.gov] Jackson, Ryan Mon 5/22/2017 3:29:15 PM RE: Quick question From: Michael K. Henry [mailto:mhenry@alpinegroup.com] Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 11:22 AM To: Jackson, Ryan <jackson.ryan@epa.gov> Subject: Quick question Can you connect me to Brittany Bolen? Sorry to bug you!! 17cv1906 Sierra Club v. EPA - 6/22 Production ED 001523 00004997-00001