Senate Democrats fell short Oct. 17 in their attempt to undo a Trump administration rollback of Obama-era carbon pollution limits for U.S. power plants.
The vote failed, 41-53. Only one Republican, Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), crossed over to vote with Democrats in support of scrapping the Trump administration regulations. Democratic Sens. Doug Jones (Ala.), Joe Manchin (W.Va.), and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) voted against the effort.
At issue was the Environmental Protection Agency rule issued by the Trump administration in July that essentially scrapped Obama’s more stringent Clean Power Plan, which sought to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions ...
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