Report: EPA Delaying Job-Killing Regulations to Aid Obama Re-Election

Report: EPA Delaying Job-Killing Regulations to Aid Obama Re-Election:

Lachlan Markay:

Barack Obama and Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency

President Obama is putting off major environmental regulations until after the November elections in order to avoid the political blowback of the economic damage those regulations will cause, according to a new Senate report.

Environmental regulators in the Obama administration “don’t want this economic pain to hit American families just before the election because it would cost President Obama votes,” states the report, released by Environment and Public Works ranking member Jim Inhofe (R-OK) on Thursday, “so they have simply decided to punt, intending to move full speed ahead if they gain a second term.”

Read the full report here