JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri's two senators were on opposite sides of an effort to block President Obama's administration from moving ahead with rules on greenhouse gas emissions.
Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill was in the majority Thursday as the Senate voted 53-47 to stop a Republican-led effort to restrain the Environmental Protection Agency. Republican Sen. Kit Bond was on the losing side.
The defeated resolution would have denied the EPA the authority to issue rules aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
McCaskill says the measure could have undermined an agreement between the government and the auto industry to set new standards for vehicle emissions.
Bond says that's false. He says the EPA's potential regulations amount to an end-run around Congress that could prove costly for businesses.
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