Al Gore: Obama bows to polluters By: Dan Berman September 7, 2011 03:09 PM EDT Former Vice President Al Gore is unhappy with Barack Obama. In a blog post Wednesday afternoon, Gore took Obama to task for his decision late last week to scrap EPA’s proposed update of George W. Bush-era smog regulations. “Instead of relying on science, President Obama appears to have bowed to pressure from polluters who did not want to bear the cost of implementing new restrictions on their harmful pollution — even though economists have shown that the U.S. economy would benefit from the job creating...