And it works!
Obama Pulls Back Proposal to Tighten Clean Air Rules - NYTimes.com
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is abandoning its plan to immediately tighten air quality rules nationwide to cut reduce emissions of smog-causing chemicals after an intense lobbying campaign by industry, which said the new rule would cost billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs, officials said Friday.
Come on. Corporations have been doing this on a local level for at least three decades. "We'll bring jobs to your town if you build us a highway; we'll bring jobs to your town if you give us a tax rebate; we'll bring jobs to your town if you donate the land for our factory. Don't raise our taxes or we'll take our jobs somewhere else." Now they've got the Feds dancing to the same tune, is all.
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