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Can you believe this guy? No, you can’t.

Longtime anchor of NBC Nightly News Brian Williams wants his job back — the job he lost, as you might recall, when the facts emerged from the fiction of some of his conflict reporting. After three months off-air and banned from speaking publicly, he’s started to express, through anonymous friends and even his daughter, who spoke about the issue to CNN, his growing unhappiness with NBC’s failure to invite him back on air, or even send a save-the-date card to announce the impending event.

Lester Holt has been at the anchor desk since Williams’ departure. Ratings are down, and Williams has been spotted with a puppy in New York City. That’s not a joke. He’s been out with his wife, daughter and a new dog — a move a USA Today media columnist told CNN is a clear attempt at image rehab. If the dog trusts this guy, we can too, right? Wrong.

Results of NBC’s internal investigation of Williams and how often his facts were far from straight are still pending.

And still more trust issues…

Noble Energy has agreed to pay $8.95 million in penalties and funding for environmental mitigation projects along the Front Range after several Noble facilities were found to be out of compliance for volatile organic compound emissions in 2012. Noble has also agreed to systemwide upgrades and to pay for additional projects to reduce emissions — and will be self-inspecting their own facilities moving forward in an effort to maintain compliance. They’d likely have to, since the state’s paltry number of inspectors are hard-pressed to make it to the state’s 52,000 wells that are due to be inspected each year. Most get looked at once every four years or so.

But OK, let’s just say they really will be inspecting down to every detail of the new air quality emission standards approved in 2014, which are often touted as some of the toughest in the country. Dr. Larry Wolk, executive director and chief medical officer at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, pointed out in a press release that the VOC emissions for which Noble is being penalized pre-date the 2014 air quality emissions rules that address volatile organic compounds from storage tanks — and that Noble was “instrumental” in crafting those new policies, reached in agreement with the state, industry and environmental representatives.

Sounds a bit like letting children set their own bed times and determine their own daily allotment of television and candy. What could go wrong?

We don’t trust this either

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s efforts to reduce air pollution from oil and gas activities earned it one of seven of the 2015 Clean Air Excellence Awards given by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

We’d really like to be happy about that — the award seeks out efforts that reduce air pollution in innovative and sustainable ways and “provide a model for others to follow,” according to the EPA website. And maybe the efforts were a step in the right direction. The EPA’s award list states that Colorado’s rules “further minimize air quality impacts associated with oil and gas development” and address ozone formation, methane emissions and include a leak detection and repair program using infrared cameras to detect emissions and are estimated to reduce methane emissions by 60,000 tons and volatile organic compound emissions by 92,000 tons each year. That’s great.

But a May 2012 study on air quality along the Front Range estimated that oil and gas operations were leaking 19.3 tons of methane every hour, or 463.2 tons per day.

We’re not great at math, but we’ll say a reduction of 60,000 tons is a nice step, but probably only a third of the problem.

And a study of oil and gas operations in the Uinta Basin in Utah found a single dehydrator can emit 30,000 tons of volatile organic compounds each year. So again, 92,000 tons may not take more than a dent out of the issue.