The ozone-level decision is the other environmental issue that's troubling Obama's (present and former) supporters. (The first is the pending sludge-carrying Keystone Pipeline approval, the one the Koch Brothers, among others, so desperately want.)
Obama's ozone decision was covered here. Basically, the 2012 campaigner-in-chief overruled his own EPA scientists (and, it seems, a court order) to give a nice gift to the corporate polluter community.
Now, from Al Gore's Journal:
Instead of relying on science, President Obama appears to have bowed to pressure from polluters who did not want to bear the cost of implementing new restrictions on their harmful pollution—even though economists have shown that the US economy would benefit from the job creating investments associated with implementing the new technology. The result of the White House’s action will be increased medical bills for seniors with lung disease, more children developing asthma, and the continued degradation of our air quality.Obama says, "But ... jobs." To which I say, "But ... primaries."
Wonder what Mr. Gore says to that. Favorite son, anyone? Or something a little stronger?
GP
