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Three months after she published her unflattering description of him, it appears President Obama is still miffed with Gov. Jan Brewer. Arizona Public Radio's Howard Fischer explains.

On Wednesday the president flew into Phoenix as part of a multi-state tour following the State of the Union address. Brewer said she greeted him at the airport and gave him a hand-written note asking that they get together at some point to talk.

"And he changed the subject to my book, Scorpions for Breakfast, and was a little bit disenchanted, if you will, about how he was portrayed," Brewer said.

Governor Brewer is moving to scrap regulations to require residents to purchase lower-polluting vehicles. Arizona Public Radio's Howard Fischer explains.

Rules adopted during the Napolitano administration said that, beginning next year, new cars and trucks sold in Arizona must have reduced greenhouse gas emissions. When Jan Brewer became governor in 2009, she ordered a review, saying there is probably some link between human activities and climate change, but probably not as much as some contend. Now Brewer's Department of Environmental Quality has concluded the rules should be repealed. But gubernatorial press aide Matthew Benson said that has nothing to do with whether global warming is real.