Obama Scraps Plan to Tighten Anti-Smog Rules Per Republican Demands

[amborin]

Obama halts controversial EPA regulation

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday scrapped his administration's controversial plans to tighten smog rules, bowing to the demands of congressional Republicans and some business leaders.

Obama overruled the Environmental Protection Agency and directed administrator Lisa Jackson to withdraw the proposed regulation to reduce concentrations of smog's main ingredient, in part because of the importance of reducing regulatory burdens and uncertainty for businesses at a time of rampant uncertainty about an unsteady economy.

The announcement came shortly after a new government report on private sector employment showed that businesses essentially added no new jobs last month — and that the jobless rate remained stuck at a historically high 9.1 percent.

The withdrawal of the proposed regulation marks the latest in a string of retreats by Obama in the face of Republican opposition. Last December, he shelved, at least until the end of 2012, his insistence that Bush-era tax cuts should no longer apply to the wealthy. Earlier this year he avoided a government shutdown by agreeing to Republican demands for budget cuts. And this summer he acceded to more than a $1 trillion in spending reductions, with more to come, as the price for an agreement to raise the nation's

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http://news.yahoo.com/obama-halts-controversial-epa-regulation-143731156.html

[Eric J in MN]

1. How is Rush Limbaugh spinning this? NT

NT

[MadHound]

2. *sigh*

Once, just once I would like to see this man actually fight.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Propose something liberal. He'll fight it.

[digitaln3rd]

5. Against it.

Edit; Read that wrong! I agree, sadly.

[Octafish]

4. Switch parties, already.

Quit the pretense.

[tawadi]

6. Saw this news story already, but with a different headline

This headline is even worse. :-(

[Blue_Tires]

10. yeah, for the AP, this story is surprisingly slanted...

[kestrel91316]

7. Can somebody please explain to me the point of electing a Democrat to the WH if he is

simply going to do whatever the RW demands?

This isn't 1850s Mississippi. Obama doesn't have to say, "Yes, Massah!"

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Obama caves = Water is wet - Maybe no longer pure but still wet.

[Fumesucker]

9. We can't AFFORD clean air when every billionaire deserves a tax break!!!

Think of the poor suffering billionaires why won't you, you cruel and selfish people.

[blindpig]

11. The business of America is business.

That's capitalism for ya.

k&r