TRANSPARENCY: Another lawsuit filed for EPA official’s private emails. “Yet another Environmental Protection Agency official used his private email account to conduct government business, according to a lawsuit from the watchdog that has recently exposed similar transparency violations at the agency. . . . Federal law and EPA policy bans conducting public work from from personal accounts, in order to facilitate government transparency. In February, another regional administrator resigned in the midst of an investigation into his use of a private account for government work. Before that, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson resigned as lawmakers investigated her use of a private email account under the alias ‘Richard Windsor.'”