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Link: ClimateWire via N.Y. Times Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski may attempt to handcuff the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate greenhouse gases with an amendment to the agency's annual spending bill. Murkowski, ranking member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, may introduce an amendment that would allow EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions only from mobile sources and not stationary sources like power plants and industrial facilities. "Senator Murkowski is concerned about the economic consequences of EPA command-and-control regulation of emissions," said spokesman Robert Dillon. The prohibition would last a year.