wo weeks into the Middle
East War a distraught At-
lanta Constitution editorial
writer declared on a televi-
sion news broadcast that
the Iraqi oil spill in the Per- sian Gulf had thrown her into "despair." The same day, the New York Times and the Washington Post published equivocal news stories about a U.S. Environmental Protec- tion Agency (EPA) decision to require an Arizona utility company to spend $2.3 bil-lion at one power plant to try to eradicate a seasonal blue haze that s...