Environmental Accountability If you want to know what the Environmental Protection Agency is doing on any given environmental issue, you can file a Freedom of Information Act request with the agency for whatever it may have in its files about your particular subject of interest. Moreover, you have a pretty good chance of actually getting the information you requested if it exists in the agency's files. That wasn't always the case. At Landmark's instigation in 2003, Federal District Judge Royce Lamberth held the EPA in contempt for destroying files in a FOIA case Landmark had filed against the agency over last minute regulations promulgated in the final days of the previous administration. That suit also resulted in the agency completely revamping its procedures for responding to FOIA requests as well as collecting and preserving possibly responsive information to such requests. Landmark also maintains the most comprehensive searchable database of information about federal grants to nonprofit environmental groups anywhere on the Internet. This database, with information from the EPA, the Bureau of Land Management, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Forest Service, includes information about grants made from 1993 to the present. Copyright ©2005 Landmark Legal Foundation. All Rights Reserved.