Here’s our weekly laugh or cry item. In Massachusetts, none of the government agencies are following the state’s own stringent pollution control rules implemented back in 2016. Don’t believe us? This is the headline from the New England Public Media news outlet:

Massachusetts state agencies have missed filing reports showing they trimmed emissions coming from state owned vehicles. Regulators didn’t enforce the rule, and now it’s raising fresh questions about oversight as the state presses ahead on its climate goals.

The state owns some 7,500 vehicles, many of which are not in compliance.

This revelation of the state agencies violating their own rules ironically was uncovered during a lawsuit brought by the state EPA against ExxonMobil for alleged noncompliance and “deception.”

Our recommendation is that the Massachusetts Attorney General should drop the Exxon lawsuit and instead the state should sue itself.