CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: GOP lawmakers probe EPA.

Republican lawmakers are launching an investigation to determine whether an environmental group wielded outsized influence in the development of Environmental Protection Agency power plant rules.

The GOP congressmen are concerned that the Natural Resources Defense Council might have coordinated with the EPA when the agency was crafting its proposed rule for limiting carbon emissions from power plants.

“It appears that the NRDC’s unprecedented access to high-level EPA officials allowed it to influence EPA policy decisions and achieve its own private agenda,” the lawmakers said in a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy.

Regulatory capture.