Obama Offers Green Groups Mixed Measure on Day of Endorsement
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April 19 (Bloomberg) -- On the day environmental groupsendorsed President Barack Obama’s re-election, hisadministration delayed for two years gas-drilling requirementsthat clean-air advocates say are needed and overdue.
The new rules, the first of their kind for drilling, weredescribed by the Clean Air Task Force, among groups pushinghardest for the standards, as a “classic case of good news, badnews,” because of a phase-in period until 2015. That’s part ofa trend that environmental advocates say has become typicalduring Obama’s term.