Sunday, March 14, 2010

I Can See Clearly Now

Bob Murphy sends a link to an Institute for Energy Research report on new EPA data that show air quality in the United States has dramatically improved.

Wtires IER:
On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) quietly released their annual report on air quality trends. You would never know it from picking up a newspaper or reading news websites, but the report contains great news. Air quality in the United States has dramatically improved and, according to all indicators, it will continue to improve...

So far not one major newspaper has written a story about the good news in this air trends report—there’s nothing from the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, or any of the other major news outlets. The only story we could find is from E&E News (a subscription-based environment and energy news service) and even then it was the 12th story in their afternoon publication.

It’s tough for the American people to lean to the truth about air quality when the media does not report the good news.
You can read the full IER report here.