Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., predicted the Senate will approve the resolution sponsored by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, to block EPA's endangerment finding for GHG emissions, Environment and Energy Daily reported. Graham, who was one of 41 cosponsors of the resolution, said "the majority of the body will say that Congress should set the carbon regulations, not the EPA."
Graham added that he believed emissions limits needed "a more business-friendly framework than Waxman-Markey," including measures to promote "energy independence" for the U.S. He stated that one of his conditions for voting for the Kerry-Lieberman bill was for it to include provisions allowing offshore energy production along the Florida Gulf coast.
In response, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., was quoted as saying: "I can't keep up with his various conditions." Graham predicted the climate bill will "either going to get 40 votes or probably 70 votes" from senators. Graham was quoted as saying of the bill's fate: "Every week that goes by, if people don't sign up, that's a bad thing. If people show an interest, that's a good thing. The political market will tell us after the modeling is done."
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