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Article: Watchdog Says EPA in Coverup about Toxic Gas.
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- January 17, 2002
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By Mark Obmascik, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 17--The top staff watchdog of the Environmental Protection Agency is accusing the federal agency's auditing office of a coverup because it won't answer questions about a botched toxic-gas probe.
"If they've got nothing to hide, why are they covering up and refusing to respond to the public? They're stonewalling us," said Hugh Kaufman, spokesman for EPA ombudsman Robert Martin.
Last week Martin launched an investigation and demanded documents to answer this question: "Did the Office of Inspector General drop an investigation into whether EPA ignored health risks from ...