President Obama has had a rocky relationship with environmentalists over the past couple of years he has seemingly favored the oil and gas industry and business leaders. When industry critics warned that a new air-quality rule would cost millions of jobs, the president asked the EPA to delay action and rewrite the rule. Weeks later, the EPA announced that it would miss a deadline for another effort to combat global warming. Obama doesnt want to jeopardize reelection, so most of his decisions have been made carefully. These decisions, however, continue to anger environmentalists.
Obama has done much to patch things up with environmentalists, public health advocates and liberal groups. Environmental leaders say the president’s decision to block the pipeline project demonstrated that Obama was finally listening to them. But of course, him listening to one side angers the other side. Oil industry executives and Republican presidential candidates say he is jeopardizing a project that could add tens of thousands of “shovel ready” jobs to the economy. Obama is trying to please everyone with his new budget proposal.
Obama has done much to patch things up with environmentalists, public health advocates and liberal groups. Environmental leaders say the president’s decision to block the pipeline project demonstrated that Obama was finally listening to them. But of course, him listening to one side angers the other side. Oil industry executives and Republican presidential candidates say he is jeopardizing a project that could add tens of thousands of “shovel ready” jobs to the economy. Obama is trying to please everyone with his new budget proposal.
1. Why would Obama side with companies instead of environmentalists?
do what the environmentalists want would cost millions of jobs
2. What announcement did Obama make during his State of the Union that upset environmentalists?
he vowed to open more than 75 percent of potential offshore oil and gas resources to exploration.
3. What has Obama done to please environmentalists?
Implementing new rules that will double automobile fuel efficiency by 2025
4. What does Obama's budget include that will upset environmentalists?
Cuts in the EPA's budget,especially funds for Super Fund toxic waste cleanups, and a revolving fund to maintain states’ water pipelines, purification facilities and vital waterways
5. What does Obama's budget include that will make environmentalists happy?
a proposal to spend $6.7 billion on clean and renewable energy projects
6. What is a cap and trade program? (you'll have to look it up)
a program that establishes a cap throughout an economy on emissions of a substance considered a pollutant
7. Why would spending increases for the Department of Energy Efficiency be a better form of spending than EPA enforcement of current rules?
The increase would encourage the construction of more energy efficient commercial buildings, and would support the Interior Department’s program of allowing new renewable energy projects on public land. 
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