Climate Wire (via The New York Times) reports today that the resolution to strip the EPA of its authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, introduced earlier this year by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), will face a unanimous consent vote on the Senate floor on June 10.

The vote has been scheduled pursuant to an agreement between Sen. Murkowski and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada).  Climate Wire explains:

The Senate would debate the measure for 10 hours; no filibusters or amendments would be possible.

Murkowski’s resolution would need 51 votes to clear the chamber. She already has 41 co-sponsors, including three Democrats: Sens. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Ben Nelson of Nebraska.

Even if the resolution passes the Senate, it faces an uphill climb in the House, which does not have the same expedited procedures, and it faces a likely veto from President Obama.

Warming Law readers may recall that Sen. Murkowski threatened to introduce the disapproval resolution — which, if passed by both houses and signed by the President, would function as a legislative veto of the EPA’s powers to regulate greenhouse gases — throughout the  fall, as the EPA prepared its endangerment finding for CO2.  After the endangerment finding was finalized in December, Sen. Murkowski introduced her resolution with 38 co-sponsors – including the 3 Democrats.

Of course, Sen. Murkowski’s efforts to strip the EPA of its authority to regulate greenhouse gases follow the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA (2007), in which the Court held that the EPA has the authority, under the Clean Air Act, to regulate emissions of CO2 as an “air pollutant.”  The proposed resolution effectively seeks to undo this ruling and remove a key tool that allows the Obama Administration to limit greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles and power plants while Congress delays taking action on climate change.