By Associated Press
Washington D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has filed an amendment to a pending small business bill that would stop the Environmental Protection Agency from imposing new regulations on carbon emissions. The Kentucky senator filed the amendment yesterday, calling the regulation "a back-door national energy tax." McConnell charges the regulations would lead to higher prices for gasoline, groceries, electricity and natural gas while stalling economic and job growth. McConnell's amendment is identical to a bill sponsored by Republican Representatives Fred Upton of Michigan and Kentucky's Ed Whitfield, which is pending in the House Energy and Commerce Committee today.