Washington Post: Even as new data suggest that October of 2015 was a record-breaking hot month -- with a 1.04 degree Celsius global temperature anomaly, the biggest monthly departure from average ever seen in NASA records -- Senate Republicans led a vote to block President Obamas flagship climate policy, the Clean Power Plan, and also another major EPA energy regulation of new power plants.
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The largely symbolic votes, which have prompted...