Chris Reed, blogger for the San Diego Union-Tribune, writes about why the news media won’t cover enviro-scandals like what went on earlier this year with the California Air Resources Board. An excerpt:

ADDENDUM, 11 A.M.: Here’s one more reason I’m skeptical.
Fifty-one weeks ago, I broke the story that the air board’s lead scientist on its study justifying the new rules on diesel emissions had lied about his academic credentials. I went on to report that air Nichols kept this from board members and that the lying scientist, who defended himself by offering a mail-order Ph.D. from a “university” associated with a fugitive pedophile, hadn’t even been fired.
One columnist (Lois Henry of The Bakersfield Californian) followed up on this incredibly juicy story. But not one single reporter – not until air board member John Telles learned of the cover-up and blasted it last month, making it impossible to ignore.
If you need proof that enviro beat journos are true believers whose work can’t be trusted, there it is. They were accomplices to Nichols’ cover-up. What other inconvenient truths are they covering up? We may never know.