Some environmentalists seem unwilling to accept that North Carolina is on track for a third year with few high-ozone days. As of August 1, wrote Roy Cordato in Sunday’s Raleigh News & Observer, the average number of high-ozone days per monitor in the state’s three major metro areas was 2.2. For 2003, it was 2.4. Cordato also provided examples of activists and local officials who distort data to make things appear worse. “In the political arena there is nothing more unsettling for professional advocates than the realization that the problem in which they have invested their capital is actually being solved,” he concluded.
