Commentary: Environmental regulations place Brown in a tough spot

 By Jack Torry, Staff Writer 11:27 PM Sunday, April 10, 2011

WASHINGTON — Sen. Sherrod Brown last week faced a tough choice: Vote with the environmentalists or vote with industry.
In the end, the Ohio Democrat sided with the environmentalists. He opposed an effort by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky to prohibit the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from issuing new rules to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases believed to cause global warming....