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Youngstown pays $60K for 1 witness to fight EPA

Mar 14, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -6% Center

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -6% Center

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Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : " John Mooney, director of the federal EPA's air and radiation division for the region that includes Ohio, sent a Sept. 11, 2023, letter to the state EPA writing the federal agency "determined that the draft permitting action raises potential environmental justice concerns," and that he urged the state to not grant the permit.
45% : His clients include trade organizations; companies such as steel mills, petroleum refineries, chemical plants, cement manufacturers, aerospace companies, power generation facilities; as well as the U.S. EPA and the U.S. Department of Justice.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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