Senate To Vote On 2-Year Delay On EPA's GHG Rules

Law360, New York (June 18, 2010, 3:39 PM ET) -- The Senate will vote by the end of 2010 on a bill from Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., to postpone the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from large-scale polluters, as the passage of a cap-and-trade plan grows more doubtful.

Rockefeller said Thursday that he had received a public commitment from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to hold a vote this session on S. 3072, the Stationary Source Regulations Act Delay, which would forbid the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power...
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