Talk:Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

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Boxer has her priorities straight. Goddess, I love her! I can't seem to upload pictures on to wiki, so I'm relying on a file picture of Boxer that's already on dkosopedia.

Onward, and upward, Barbara, go after this issue!

Posted on Tue, Nov. 14, 2006

Boxer plans Senate hearings on global warming

By Margaret Talev

McClatchy Newspapers

Chuck Kennedy, MCT

(dkosopedia file picture of Barbara Boxer)

WASHINGTON - Automakers and manufacturers, beware: There's a new environmental policy boss in town, she scowls a lot, and two of her favorite phrases are "global warming" and "extensive hearings."

The Democrats' coming takeover of Congress is expected to feel pressure for policy change on a number of fronts, from Iraq to taxes, but the starkest change may come at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, when Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., will surrender the gavel to Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. Her appointment was announced Tuesday, but won't take effect until January.

Inhofe rejects a wide scientific consensus that human use of fossil fuels is largely responsible for catastrophic climate change, calling it "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." He's accused environmental activists of exploiting people's fears to raise money. And he's blocked legislation aimed at curbing global warming.

Boxer, in contrast, is a fiercely liberal environmental activist. She has railed against Inhofe, crusaded for cleaner drinking water and led wilderness protection efforts in her home state and for Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

More at the page. Stay Tuned!

--Hummingbird 03:51, 15 November 2006 (PST)

I have put up a diary with the incoming EPW subcommittee chairs and with the programs they have jurisdiction over. | Here is the link. --Patrick Kennedy November 16