This is certainly a welcome switch:
The White House announced Friday that it is shelving a major planned Environmental Protection Agency regulation that would have tightened smog standards, dealing a huge blow to environmentalists that had pushed the Obama administration to resist industry pressure to abandon the regulation.
In a statement, President Obama said that the rule is being shelved because he is wary of imposing regulatory burdens during the economic recovery.
Wow. Easing regulatory burdens to encourage economic recovery. What a concept! And it ticks off the environmentalsts. Win-win. One job-destroying regulation down, nine to go.
