http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/102535-senate-turns-back-plan-to-block-epa-climate-rulesThe Senate on Thursday turned back a largely GOP plan to block EPA greenhouse gas rules, voting 47-53 to stave off what would have been a major blow to the White House and Democratic climate agenda.
Fifty-one votes would have been needed in favor of the plan to advance it toward a final vote.
The vote is a victory for the White House – which threatened a veto – and environmental groups that lobbied against Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska) resolution.
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She called it “ironic” that the measure was surfacing “at the same time that every American sees graphic evidence on television every single day of the deadly carbon pollution in the Gulf.”