Community Groups in Louisiana, by many metrics America’s most polluted state, have begun a legal battle against a law passed last year which effectively bans them from sharing any of the air quality data they collect on their own monitors.
In a column published yesterday titled ‘Making Polluting Legal Again’ Dan Rather wrote: ‘The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seems to have undergone an overnight rebrand, one that looks as if it were written and directed by the oil and gas industry.’