There are a lot of folks following this more closely than I am, but make no mistake about it: The Obama administration’s decision today to revisit the Bush administration’s ruling on how much smog we’ll tolerate in the air is a big honkin’ deal.
Note that two of the best early versions of the story come from Texas, where they know from air pollution: Randy Lee Loftis’s blog post for The Dallas Morning News (reader comment: “This should be front page news.” We’ll see…) and Matthew Tresaugue’s piece in The Houston Chronicle.
— Robert McClure