I'm always amazed at the selective reportage of environmental issues. Yesterday, the AP reported: An Associated Press analysis of a little—known government research project shows that black Americans are 79 percent more likely than whites to live in neighborhoods where industrial pollution is suspected of posing the greatest health danger. Thus, we have  a news media analysis of a government research project which  concludes that "industrial pollution is suspected of posing the greatest health danger" in neighborhoods where blacks are 79% more likely to live than whites. We are not given the factual basis for these suspicions. We, in fact, are given no evidence to conclude that industrial pollution poses a greater health danger to the residents of these neighborhoods than to those of other neighborhoods. We do have rather stringent environmental protection laws to prevent harm from industrial and other pollutants. Yet the article never indicates they are...(Read Full Post)