Obama’s Retreat on Ozone Standards Angers Environmentalists - NYTimes.com

For environmental groups, it was the final hard slap that brought a long-troubled relationship to the brink.
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John D. Walke, clean air director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, an advocacy group based in New York, likened the ozone decision to a “bomb being dropped.”
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“There is shock and chaos here,” Mr. Walke said, “so I do not know. I can’t answer that question.”
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As of Friday, Mr. McKibben said, more than a thousand people had been arrested in the previous days of protest, including Obama campaign staff members from 2008. Yet, he said of the White House, “we heard not one word from them.”