Sen. Barbara Boxer Smacks Down EPA In Oversight Hearing
Tue Feb 06, 2007 at 06:52:15 PM PDT
(Cross-posted from The Courage Campaign also at Calitics)
Today, Senator Barbara Boxer held her first oversight hearing of the administration's environmental policy since becoming chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee last month.
"EPA has gone too long without meaningful oversight," Boxer said. "I want to send a clear signal to EPA and to this administration: We are watching . . . and no longer will EPA rollbacks quietly escape scrutiny."
Her full opening statement can be found HERE.
Boxer focused her questioning on six recent changes to EPA rules and policy, which seemed to magically appear in December, right before, um, what was it...oh yeah...Democrats retook control of Congress.
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Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works: January 29 week in review (CCP)
Sun Feb 04, 2007 at 03:09:36 PM PDT
This diary is part of the Daily Kos Congressional Committees Project . It is a review of the activities of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works for the week of January 29, 2007.
The big event for the EPW committee this past week was the January 30 hearing on global warming.
The full Committee on Environment and Public Works will conduct a hearing entitled, "Senators' Perspectives on Global Warming." The purpose of the hearing is to hear from each Senator about his or her views on global warming, and what the Senator believes the nation's response should be to the issue.
How would you stop global warming?
Tue Jan 30, 2007 at 12:53:41 PM PDT
It's great to be back here at DailyKos -- now in the majority! As we told the country last November, elections have consequences -- and one of those consequences was the change in leadership of the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee.
I just finished up our first hearing on global warming as the new Democratic Chair of the EPW Committee. Instead of a Chair who says global warming is a hoax, I said today that global warming is the challenge of our generation, and we must step up and meet it.
To that end, I hope you will help me move forward a bill that will be a meaningful start. We have lost so much time, so we must act quickly.
Many people have already offered suggestions to meet the challenge of global warming, and many other proposals are about to be put on the table. But I'd like to hear your ideas on the best way to move forward as well. What ideas do you think we should pursue? Let me know so that I can share your comments with my colleagues in the Senate at our next hearing.
Please click here to rank your preferred approaches to stop global warming now: http://ga4.org/...
Global Warming Heating Up in DC
Mon Jan 29, 2007 at 03:37:14 PM PDT
This is a HUGE week in global warming policy.
| Monday | 10th Session of IPCC Working Group 1 begins. |
| Tuesday | 9 AM: Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
Senators' Perspectives on Global Warming |
10 AM: House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Allegations of Political Interference with the Work of Government Climate Change Scientists |
| Wednesday | 12 PM: AMS Seminar
Multiple Lines of Evidence: The Scientific Case for Global Warming and its Causation |
| Thursday | IPCC Working Group I meeting concludes |
| Friday | IPCC Climate Change 2007: 4th Assessment Report |
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Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works: week in review (CCP)
Mon Jan 22, 2007 at 05:44:19 PM PDT
Welcome to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works for the 110th Congress; this "week in review" diary is part of the Daily Kos Congressional Committees Project.
Congressional Action on Global Warming
Thu Jan 18, 2007 at 09:15:16 AM PDT
{note: I am not Congressman Kennedy. This diary is crossposted at my blog BlueClimate}
Both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have stories up today about congressional action on global warming.
Sanders/Leahy Global Warming Bill
Tue Jan 16, 2007 at 10:02:29 AM PDT
{note: I am not Congressman Kennedy. This diary is crossposted at my blog BlueClimate}
Vermont Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy are re-introducing the global warming bill first introduced last year by now retired Senator Jim Jeffords. The press announcement on the Sanders/Leahy global warming bill can be found on Senator Sander's website here . A summary of the bill can be found here and is reproduced in it's entirety below.
The New (and Old) Senate Global Warming Bill
Thu Jan 04, 2007 at 12:52:40 PM PDT
{note: I am not Congressman Kennedy. This diary is crossposted at my blog BlueClimate}
Today Senator Barbara Boxer, the new chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, reiterated her commitment to pass global warming legislation. On the senate floor today, Boxer said that newly elected Senator Bernard Sanders from Vermont would be introducing the global warming bill that retired Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont had introduced last year. Senator Boxer said she would use the Sanders/Jeffords bill as the starting point for developing global warming legislation.Below is a post I wrote on September 2, 2006 describing the Jeffords bill.
10 lashes with a wet noodle to those who say elections don't matter
Fri Nov 10, 2006 at 04:25:33 PM PDT
Inhofe to Boxer...it really would be hard to imagine more different leadership. A morph blessed by heaven, IMHO.
Boxer Replaces Inhofe - Calls for Global Warming Legislation
Fri Nov 10, 2006 at 01:06:15 PM PDT
Of all of the changes that will occur in congressional committee leadership now that the Democrats have won control of the congress in the midterm elections there may be none that are as important as this one. Senator Barbara Boxer of California will replace Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma as Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works. The Associated Press reports
that:
