Amid record global temperatures, Senate votes to block Obama’s Clean Power Plan [View all]
Source: Washington Post
Even as new data suggest that October of 2015 was a record-breaking hot month — with a 1.04 degree Celsius global temperature anomaly, the biggest monthly departure from average ever seen in NASA records — Senate Republicans led a vote to block President Obama’s flagship climate policy, the Clean Power Plan, and also another major EPA energy regulation of new power plants.
The largely symbolic votes, which have prompted strong resistance from environmental groups, took place on Tuesday evening after debate and speeches throughout the day.
There were two related resolutions under consideration. One, advanced by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), was a resolution of disapproval, under the Congressional Review Act, saying that the Clean Power Plan “shall have no force or effect.” The bill has 48 co-sponsors, including Democrats Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Manchin of West Virginia. The measure passed Tuesday evening:
Passed, 52-46: S.J.Res.24, a joint resolution of disapproval of EPA carbon emissions rule on existing power plants.
— Floor Monitor (@SenGOP_Floor) November 17, 2015
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