A Pyrrhic Victory on Climate Change | Mother Jones
Sen. Lisa Murkowski's proposal to ban the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases lost in the Senate today, 53-47. That's the good news. Unfortunately, 47 yes votes is the bad news. I don't have the vote breakdown yet, but I assume this means six Democrats voted in favor of Murkowski's resolution. This obviously bodes poorly for a Senate willing to seriously cap greenhouse emissions, and it bodes really really poorly for a Senate will to cap greenhouse emissions after Democrats lose a bunch of seats in November. I remain extremely discouraged on this front.
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It seems to me that it may be better that the Senate resolution to stop the EPA failed. Would passage have rendered the lawsuit moot? Isn't it better to pursued legal action where the evidence for warming will have to be weighed?
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