Is the environment getting cleaner or dirtier? It's hard for the public to tell, as state agencies and the feds tend to release generally self-serving, subjective reports. That needs to be addressed fast -- especially before we ask Congress to give $4-6 billion for cleanup of the Great Lakes. We'd better have measures to show whether it changed anything.
This Associated Press story by first-rate reporter John Flesher, in today's Detroit News, talks about another aspect of the data problem -- reporting by polluters. Finally, Michigan has joined an electronic network that will streamline that job and save taxpayer money.
http://www.detnews.com/2004/metro/0407/28/c08-224898.htm
But when will Michigan and the other Great Lakes states publish an independently verifiable, objective report card on environmental progress or lack of same?
Posted by Dave at July 28, 2004 09:16 AM