"Tens of thousands of people are dying prematurely each year from breathing dirty air. Many more fall ill with asthma, bronchitis or heart attacks. But major polluters don’t want to talk about the smog that’s killing them.

"They’d rather spin this into an economic threat. Dirty industries know they can exploit unemployment anxiety by howling that stronger standards under the Clean Air Act would lead to job losses.

"And sadly, their Republican friends in Congress now have President Obama running scared. On Friday, he caved in to business lobbyists, abandoning his plan to tighten clean air rules to meet the standard set by scientists."

http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2011/09/president_obama_caved_on_safer.html