Obama yields on smog rule in face of GOP demands

Business groups are happy, environmentalists are angered, and Republicans fear Obama may have stolen an election campaign issue they wanted to run on. Strange things happen in the world of politics.

In a dramatic reversal, President Barack Obama on Friday scrubbed a clean-air regulation that aimed to reduce health-threatening smog, yielding to bitterly protesting businesses and congressional Republicans who complained the rule would kill jobs in America's ailing economy.

Full article from the Seattle Times/AP: Obama yields on smog rule in face of GOP demands