Barbara Boxer

Lamar Alexander (R-Oak Ridge)

Tennessee Republican comes out swinging against cap-and-trade bill 0
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Sen. Lamar Alexander's (R-Tenn.), a day after he announced that he is not willing to work with Democrats on a climate change bill and instead unveiled his own nuclear-power-heavy proposal, is going out of his way to be a thorn in the side of Senate Democrats.
Ewe Betcha

The Climate Post: L’Aquila, the Senate, and shrinking sheep 0
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Conflicting early reports obscured events at a major international summit in L’Aquila, Italy. The Group of Eight has apparently resolved to cut greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050, but disagreed on thorny “mid-term targets."
In the clearing stands a Boxer

Boxer and Reid delay Senate action on climate bill until September 34
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Sen. Barbara Boxer, chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, is telling reporters that she won't have a climate and energy bill ready for a vote in her committee until September, a significant delay for the legislation.
Glowing on us

Nuclear + cap-and-trade = bipartisan climate bill? 16
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Four members of the Obama administration appeared before the Senate committee charged with crafting climate change legislation on Tuesday in support of passing a strong bill out of the upper chamber. The hearing marked the Senate's first venture into climate policy this year.
Don't Boxer in

Senate panel to kick off climate hearings on Tuesday 10
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Top Obama administration officials will be on Capitol Hill on Tuesday as the Senate begins work on a comprehensive climate and energy bill.
It's a marathon, not a sprint

House passes landmark climate and clean-energy bill 10
Posted 5 months ago
The narrow victory for House Democrats' climate and energy bill came only after much coercion by party leaders and the White House. The close vote makes it clear that Waxman-Markey will face many more tough battles in the Senate and again in the House when a final bill comes back for final, final approval.
Hey, it's better than blackjack

Week of Aug. 3 planned for cap-and-trade markup, given “50-50 or better odds” 0
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) plans to wait until the week of Aug. 3 to mark up climate change legislation in order to have a series of hearings on the issue and the bill first, she said today.
OK, we'll do it the hard way...

Senate rules out using budget process to pass cap-and-trade 1
Posted 8 months ago
Prospects for using the Congress's budget process to pass cap-and-trade legislation were extinguished on Wednesday night as the Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of a measure to bar that option.
House rules

Key Democrats deal opening hand in climate debate 2
Posted 8 months ago
House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders released the much-anticipated draft of their climate and energy legislation on Tuesday, a proposal that includes emissions goals more ambitious than those proposed by the Obama White House but also leaves open many of the most contentious questions on climate policy.
Are emission targets ever really ‘science-based’? 0
Posted 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Expanding on Barbara Boxer’s principles for climate legislation 10
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago
The players: House and Senate 3
Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Will Barbara Boxer back a big increase in highway funding in the stimulus bill? 2
Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Sen. Barbara Boxer rolls out her climate policy principles, with very few details 2
Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Jeff Merkley and Tom Udall to join Senate Environment Committee 0
Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Senate Environment Committee gets rolling in 111th Congress 0
Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Boxer asks DOJ to force EPA withdrawal of ‘blatantly illegal’ emissions memo 1
Posted 11 months, 1 week ago
Barbara Boxer wants AG to block EPA’s Johnson 0
Posted 11 months, 1 week ago
Senate EPW chair calls on Obama to invest in infrastructure and green energy 0
Posted 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Key senator signals piecemeal approach to climate legislation 0
Posted 1 year ago