Trump’s EPA Uses Sleight Of Hand To Make U.S. Air Quality Look Like It’s Improving…

But look more closely at their own numbers, and fancy charts and graphs, and you’ll find exactly the opposite

But hey, what do you expect when the guy running the Environmental Protection Agency is a former coal industry lawyer, and the guy who preceded him (and was forced to resign in disgrace), had was practically married to the oil industry?

What we’re referring to specifically is a report issued this week by the agency entitled “Our Nation’s Air 2019”. And it’s either a graduate-level lesson on spin, or — because it’s so full of obfuscations and attempts to make silk purses out of sows’ ears — a case study of how not to do it.

Let’s look at a few things, first of all this impressive graphic just below showing how pollutants of all kinds are down substantially over the last 30 years or so: