As President Barack Obama returned from his visit to Paris for a major U.N. summit on global warming, House lawmakers passed two bills that would overturn the first-ever nationwide restrictions on greenhouse gas from the power sector, both centerpieces of Obama's climate efforts.
The House voted 242-180 to repeal the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan, which would limit carbon emissions from existing power plants, and 235-188 to block EPA rules governing emissions from new power plants.