Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, is asking EPA Inspector General Sean O'Donnell to investigate "potential irregularities" with the agency's legal filings in cases involving controversial greenhouse gas and Clean Water Act (CWA) rules. Carper in a Sept. 15 letter to O'Donnell says the agency's Office of General Counsel filed six legal briefs in federal appeals courts and three motions in district courts that fail to list an EPA career attorney as the agency attorney of record on the case, something he says that is highly unusual if not unprecedented. "The absence of career officials listed on these filings could be regarded as a conspicuous signal that the normal process of obtaining dispassionate legal analysis on these cases, conducted by experienced career EPA attorneys, has been discarded," Carper writes.
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机译：,特拉华州民主党参议员汤姆吹毛求疵的人(d - de)的民主党领袖参议院环境和公共工程委员会,要求环保署督察长Sean O ' donnell“潜在违规行为”的调查机构的法律诉讼案件有争议的温室气体和清洁水法案(公告)规则。奥唐纳说,该机构的办公室律师提出六个联邦上诉的法律简报在地区法院法院和三个动作没有美国环境保护署的一位职业律师机构列表律师记录的情况下,他说的东西这是极不寻常的,如果不是空前的。缺乏职业官员这些上市文件可以被视为一个明显的信号获得的正常过程在这些情况下,冷静的法律分析由经验丰富的职业EPA律师,被丢弃的,”吹毛求疵的人写道。
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