A letter from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Mike Leavitt has urged the agency to respond to requests for information from both Democrats and Republicans on the committee. Apparently, EPA has been very unresponsive to numerous requests made by ranking minority member James Jeffords (I-VT) since 2001 asking for documents related to the agency's revisions to new source review regulations for power plants and refineries. Many of the requests, as far back as December 2001, remain outstanding. Jeffords threatened to subpoena EPA for the documents in 2002 when he was chairman of the committee. The March 4 letter was signed by the committee chairman James Inhofe (R-OK) and Jeffords. The two senators also sent Leavitt a letter on March 3 requesting a list of all discretionary grant recipients for 2003 and of details on the awarding of these grants. In the area of access to government information, there are few warning flags bigger than the inability of a U.S. Senator to get information from an agency. If the agency is willing to stonewall a senator for more than two years, there is little hope the agency will be fully open and responsive to a concerned citizen.