Of huge assistance to the administration's efforts to lower carbon emissions are the committee Republicans who deny climate change, and the lobbies behind them, including agriculture and the fossil fuel fossils:
House Panel Votes to Strip E.P.A. of Power to Regulate Greenhouse Gases
By JOHN M. BRODER
The sharply partisan vote, by a subcommittee, chips away at a central pillar of the Obama administration's evolving climate and energy strategy.