Senate Vote on Climate Resolution Pushed to June 7

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R., AK) has until the week of June 7 to put her resolution reversing the U.S. EPA’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) endangerment finding to a floor vote. The finding, which held that GHG emissions are a threat to public health, triggered EPA rulemaking that would eventually require GHGs controls as part of compliance with the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. Murkowski’s resolution would reverse EPA’s finding that GHGs pose a danger to human health and the environment and would halt all related regulations. EPA released its final rule...

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