Barbara Boxer

News and views on the Kerry-Boxer climate bill 0
Posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago Here's where we're tracking news and opinion on the Kerry-Boxer climate bill, which is now crawling through the Senate.
In the clearing stands a Boxer ...

What does recent Senate drama on the climate bill mean? Peak Boxer 7
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago There's been some weird goings-on in Congress around the Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill over the past few days. Why has the process been so darn messy? Lots of senators don't want to play ball with Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.).
tallying toxic threats

Congressional watchdog issues update on coal ash regulation efforts 0
Posted 3 weeks, 4 days ago The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency still does not know the exact number of coal ash dumps at the nation's power plants, but it's moving ahead with plans to regulate them.
Avoiding the Paralysis by Analysis Gambit

Boxer Proceeds with Clean Energy and Climate Protection Bill Despite Republican Boycott 0
Posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago
well suited for the job

Grass people invade Congress as Senate hearings wrap up 3
Posted 1 month ago The three-days of hearings on the Kerry-Boxer climate bill are now over. Sen. Barbara Boxer wants to commence voting in committee next Tuesday. Republicans are threatening to boycott the proceedings. And an astroturf circus in the House!
Senate digs into climate bill at hearings this week 0
Posted 1 month ago This week, the Senate is finally starting to talk seriously about the climate bill that Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) introduced on Sept. 30. Starting on Tuesday, the Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by Boxer, is holding three days of hearings on the bill, with a wonk-studded cast of witnesses.
Five scoops of compromise

Sampling the competing flavors of the Senate climate debate 0
Posted 1 month ago Senators of all stripes are screaming for some kind of climate and energy bill, but like schoolkids at the ice cream parlor, each is crying out for a different flavor.
The propitiously populist politics of permits

Bingaman hearing on pollution allowance allocation; progressive greens beware 17
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago When Kerry and Boxer introduced their clean energy bill earlier this month, it contained a huge gap: it said almost nothing about the allocation of pollution allowances under the cap-and-tr... er, pollution reduction and investment program. The reason for the omission is simple: Doling out what is effectively a huge new pot of money is a subject of considerable interest to many senators, and it's expected to help bring some recalcitrant Democrats on board. The Energy & Natural Resources Committee, under Jeff Bingaman, is holding a hearing on the subject today.
Kerrying the load

CEJAPA is Kerry’s bill 3
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago Here's how the first line of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act begins: "Mr. KERRY (for himself and Mrs. BOXER) introduced the following bill ..." See whose name is first there?
Will there be a third chance for a better acronym?

Kerry-Boxer: A second chance for progressives 1
Posted 2 months ago The new Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act gives progressives a second chance to influence climate legislation, if we learn the right lessons from both the legislative process for the House climate bill and the ongoing health care debate.
Kerry-Boxer clean air, clean water, clean energy jobs bill sharply departs from House 0
Posted 2 months ago
don't get in the way, congress!

Growth in renewable energy outpaces nuclear, fossil fuels 2
Posted 2 months ago
As good as it'll get

Boxer-Kerry climate bill: what to watch for 2
Posted 2 months ago Sens. Boxer and Kerry plan to introduce their climate bill tomorrow. I'm in NYC and DC this week, so it's been tough to find time to write, but here are a few brief notes on what to watch for.
Senate Chainsaw Massacre

Memo to Congress: Don’t dawdle on climate bill 1
Posted 2 months ago Like health care reform -- and bad teenage slasher movies -- the whole climate and energy debate seems to be moving very slowly down a well-trodden path toward a bloody ending.
Finally

Boxer, Kerry will introduce Senate climate bill next week 3
Posted 2 months ago Senators John Kerry (D-Mass) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) will introduce a climate bill in the Senate next Wednesday, finally fulfilling their promise to do so by late September.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman answers Grist’s questions on the climate bill [VIDEO] 2
Posted 2 months ago Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) is chairman of the Energy & Natural Resources Committee and a key player on energy issues. In June, his committee voted to approve S. 1462, the American Clean Energy Leadership Act, an energy bill that may or may not be combined with a climate bill from Boxer's Environment & Public Works Committee (and possibly an allowance allocation bill from Baucus's Finance Committee) into a comprehensive bill to match the House's. Sen. Bingaman was kind enough to answer a few of our questions.
Trade winds

10 Dems call on Obama admin to support trade protections in a climate bill 2
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
A group of 10 Democrats from industrial and coal-dependent states sent a letter to President Obama on Thursday informing him that they will not support a climate and energy bill that puts American businesses on an uneven playing field.
...because she understands climate science and fights to avert catastrophe

Politico’s anonymous sources slam Barbara Boxer’s “abrasive personal style” 0
Posted 4 months ago
Does the Politico know that global warming is NOT a hoax, that thousands of scientists (and dozens of governments, including our own) are NOT engaged in a massive conspiracy to fool the public? Because if the Politico knows that - and I hope they do - then they know that their own critique of Boxer for pushing back hard against Inhofe is utter crap.
Sarah “Four Pinocchios” Palin - a conservative leader on energy issues?

Palin on Energy: The Bad, the Ugly, and the Response 0
Posted 4 months ago
Recall that Palin, who quit her governorship Sunday, is so ignorant of energy, so practiced at repeating falsehoods, that in September, during the campaign, the Washington Post itself gave her its highest (which is to say lowest) rating of "Four Pinocchios."
I'll be NBCC'ing you

Racism allegations mar Senate hearing on clean energy economy 33
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Thursday's Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on climate change blew up into an argument over race between Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and the chairman of the National Black Chamber of Commerce.