Schools Matter: More of That Obama Flighting Spirit, This Time on Environmental Issues

Schools Matter: More of That Obama Flighting Spirit, This Time on Environmental Issues

More of That Obama Flighting Spirit, This Time on Environmental Issues

by Jim Horn

I am without words.

From the NYTimes:

The Obama administration is retreating on long-delayed environmental regulations — new rules governing smog and toxic emissions from industrial boilers — as it adjusts to a changed political dynamic in Washington with a more muscular Republican opposition.

The move to delay the rules, announced this week by the Environmental Protection Agency, will leave in place policies set by President George W. Bush. President Obama ran for office promising tougher standards, and the new rules were set to take effect over the next several weeks.

Now, the agency says, it needs until July 2011 to further analyze scientific and health studies of