Climate Progress

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is finally going to put a high priority on global warming and the policies to address it. Incoming chair Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is “aggressively” gearing up for a new direction in “substance and style,” as Congressional Quartely (subs. req’d.) put it.

Boxer and her allies, such as Joe Lieberman (D-Conn) and Thomas R. Carper (D-Del), are taking over a Senate that has rejected a bill to cap-and-trade greenhouse gas emissions–not once, but twice. Boxer says, “Nowhere is there a greater threat to future generations than the disastrous effects of global warming.”

In terms of climate change, Boxer is the nemesis of outgoing chairman Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla), who continues to call global warming a “hoax” and has actually published a booklet of how global warming Deniers can spin the media.

With the Supreme Court poised to make a crucial decision on greenhouse gas emissions, Boxer is exactly what Capitol Hill needs to propel legislative action forward.

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