"Senate Democrats forced a floor vote Thursday to block the implementation of a Trump administration environmental rule that aims to weaken regulations on power plant emissions.

The vote, which failed 41 to 53, was largely seen as a protest of the Trump administration’s rollbacks on several environmental protections and climate change mitigation efforts, and offers a roadmap of actions Democrats might take if they win back the Senate in 2020.

“There may be no more worthy issues than protecting our environment,” Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on the Senate floor Thursday morning."

Miranda Green and Rebecca Beitsch report for The Hill October 17, 2019. [2]