The Environmental Protection Agency’s press office, taking a page from the team that ran it during the first Trump administration, called out media bias that it believes crossed the line into lying about its policies.

The EPA has turned its guns on the Washington Post as one of its first targets and said it would be just as quick to call out bias as it would to recognize accomplishments of the agency headed by Lee Zeldin.

Targeting the outlet’s stories questioning the impact of Zeldin’s savings as he follows the lead of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, the agency today said, “The Washington Post has devolved into the radical left’s own Pravda.”

🚨 EPA Press Office fact checks @washingtonpost: “It should come as no surprise that they jump to toe the line and are quick to defend apparent cronyism instead of actually doing the work to investigate on behalf of the American public. It’s no wonder their failing newspaper is… pic.twitter.com/HkKcBT9iNJ

— U.S. EPA (@EPA)

March 6, 2025

The unsigned statement added, “It should come as no surprise that they jump to toe the line and are quick to defend apparent cronyism instead of actually doing the work to investigate on behalf of the American public. It’s no wonder their failing newspaper is hemorrhaging readers.”

At issue is the agency’s review of Biden-era contracts to a group aligned with Trump critic and failed Georgia political candidate Stacey Abrams. The Trump administration has said a group she is associated with, Power Forward Communities, received promises of $2 billion.

The outlet called the EPA’s portrayal of Abrams’s ties to the group “vastly overblown.”

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However, the EPA stuck to its earlier statement — one that was memorable for its claim that the last-minute Biden contract, as well as others, were proof that the Democratic administration was tossing “gold bars” off the Titanic.

The EPA’s trademark was an aggressive tactic to call out media bias during the first Trump administration when the press attacked former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and agency claims.