Only one month after committing to cut his countries emissions in Copenhagen, Obama's administration may lose the power to decide on emission cuts.
An Alaskan Republican senator is expected to propose a vote tomorrow, that would seek to prevent the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating US green house gas emissions. Lisa Murkowski, the senator in question has been highly critisised for asking energy sector lobbyists to draft the proposal.
With the largely Republican senate stalling and failing to pass climate law, the Democrats had hoped to use the power of the EPA to impose 'climate laws' for health reasons, as a bargaining tool. This highly political move could be disastrous in terms of the USA joining global efforts to reduce emissions. While President Obama struggles to pass his propsed health care reforms through a Republican senate, it looks like his proposed climate actions could possibly suffer the same fate.
Read more at http://www.theguardian.co.uk/environment/jan/19/obama-emissions-congress-murkowski