Senate Republicans rejected Democratic legislation Wednesday that would have ended President Donald Trump’s “energy emergency.”
The upper chamber voted along party lines, 47-52, to tank a joint resolution against Trump’s executive order that unlocks emergency powers to ease environmental regulations and facilitate energy production and mining.
The proposal, S.J. Res. 10, was sponsored by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Energy and Natural Resources ranking member Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.). They argued that the executive order is disingenuous given that the United States is producing record amounts of energy, and asserted that the order threatens clean energy growth because it favors fossil fuels over renewables.
“Clearly, we need to put an end to this stunt that will fuel a real energy emergency by killing thousands of American jobs and raising energy costs on millions of American families,” Heinrich said.
