Obama orders controversial proposed ozone standard withdrawn

US President Barack Obama ordered US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson to withdraw a proposed ozone national ambient air quality standard. Citing work already under way to update the 2006 limits by 2013, he said he would not ask state and local governments to implement regulations that would be reconsidered so soon.

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