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Senate Dems: EPA nominee plagiarized written testimony

Federal Times: President Trump’s nominee for chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, Kathleen Hartnett White, may have plagiarized her testimony before the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works from previous Environmental Protection Agency nominees, according to a recent letter written by EPW Democrats.

“We are troubled that it appears that you have cut and pasted from the written answers of other nominees in your responses to questions that were submitted to you,” the letter reads. “In at least 18 instances […] your responses to these questions included language that also appears verbatim in responses to questions for the record received from EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and EPA’s assistant administrator for air and radiation, Bill Wehrum.”

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