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House Panel Votes to Bar EPA from Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions

HeadlineMar 11, 2011

On Capitol Hill, the Republican-controlled House Energy and Power Subcommittee has voted to strip the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of authority to use the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon emissions from the country’s largest polluters. Republicans plan to bring the measure to a full House vote.

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