CHANGE: Obama shelves EPA smog rule in huge defeat for environmental groups.

Related: White House moves to limit fallout from retreat on clean-air rule.

UPDATE: Reader Joel Mackey writes that this is Rick Perry, Winning the Future:

Have not seen this analysis yet in the articles I have read, but it is pretty obvious that not only is it a cry of UNCLE by the 0bama admin on job killing regulations, but it is a case of removing a stick with which your opponent is going to beat you.

Can you imagine next August, 107 farenheit across Texas with rolling brownouts and blackouts and Rick Perry pointing directly at Obama administration policy and its real world effects. Oops, hard to spin that.

On a side note, if they ever do carry thru with the new regulations, look to see a lot more natural gas fired generators installed as a home appliance.

Yeah. I wouldn’t mind having one of those anyway, except that my power basically never goes out.