Protect the Public Trust wants the Treasury Department’s email communications with more than 30 left-leaning groups concerning tax policy and climate change. These groups include the Center for American Progress, the Sierra Club, and the Union of Concerned Scientists.
PPT made multiple edits to its Freedom of Information Act requests ostensibly to help the Treasury Department make the search more reasonable. But for the past eight months, the federal department, with “over 100,000 employees across the country and around the world,” has been unable to find one person even to respond.
“Over a year has passed since PPT first submitted its requests and over 250 days have passed since Treasury acknowledged receipt of the Combined Request, yet Treasury still has not made a determination with respect to it,” a lawsuit filed Friday reads.
Simply ignoring a request instead of…
