Senate Bid To Bar EPA Carbon Rules Set For June Vote

Law360, New York (May 25, 2010, 5:52 PM ET) -- A disapproval resolution aimed at stopping the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act is slated for a June 10 vote on the U.S. Senate floor, according to Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who introduced the bill in January.

Murkowski, the ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, reached a deal with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., on Monday to schedule a vote on the measure, which challenges the EPA's greenhouse gas endangerment finding that paves...
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