Chicken Littles: AP Report Casts Texas v. EPA Fight as Risking Health of Texans
In his report on the escalating dispute between the State of Texas and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, one thing you cannot accuse Ramit Plushnick-Masti of the Associated Press of being is a master of understatement. He claims that “Both sides and conservation groups agree the battle has put the health of Texas residents and the environment at risk.” Really? The only problem is that the AP reporter never found anyone who is currently on the Texas side of the dispute who is saying anything remotely resembling that. Here are the opening paragraphs of Plushnick-Masti's prose , followed by a much later paragraph representing the closest the writer gets to naming someone on the Texas side to worry about the alleged “risk” (bold is mine): read more
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Chicken Littles: AP Report Casts Texas v. EPA Fight as Risking Health of Texans
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