The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Senator reveals details of a document that the White House is refusing to make public which deems climate change a threat to the health of American people
News Hounds (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Your World w/Neil Cavuto, Fox's "premiere business news" show opened today (July 25, 2008) with a report from Major Garrett in London on Barack Obama's trip. Next came Dick Morris to assess how Obama's trip will "play out at home." (Obama made his Big Gaffe during today's press conference with President Sarkozy when he said we would impose tougher sanctions on Iran if they don't do what we want, instead...
eNewsUSA (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jul 24: The Senate Environment and Pubic Works Committee, Chaired by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) held a business meeting to consider a resolution to issue a subpoena to the Administrator of the U.S. EPA. The meeting was boycotted by the Republican members. The Committee is attempting to obtain the document which they say contains the "endangerment document" prepared in follow-up to the U.S. Supreme...
BMI Headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday
'American Morning' call Democrat majority's refusal to have an up-or-down vote on offshore drilling a 'partisan standoff.'
Environmental Capital (Free subscription) | yesterday
A weaker dollar and renewed fears over Iran and Nigeria pushed oil back over $126, Bloomberg reports. The heat is still on speculatorsmore details emerge about wrong-way bets oil trader SemGroup made on oil, while U.S. officials investigate a Dutch oil trader accused of market manipulation, both in the WSJ (sub reqd.). The focus on [...]
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
WASHINGTON The head of the Environmental Protection Agency told the White House in December that high levels of manmade heat-trapping gases are causing global warming and endanger the American people, Sen. Barbara Boxer said Thursday after she reviewed the EPA finding, which has not been made public.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told the White House in December that high levels of human-made heat-trapping gases...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Under a subpoena threat from Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the Environmental Protection Agency late Wednesday sent the panel a copy of its Dec. 5 proposal to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act -- as a brief loan.
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: [b]Washington Post[/b] Under a subpoena threat from Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the Environmental Protection Agency late Wednesday sent the panel a copy of its Dec. 5 proposal to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air A...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Kate Sheppard Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) has been foiled in her attempt to obtain and make public a U.S. EPA document on the legal basis for regulating greenhouse gases, thanks to Republicans on the Environment and Public Works Committee that she chairs. The document in question is an endangerment finding that the White House refused to accept when the EPA emailed it to the Office of Management...
Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: [b]Los Angelas Times[/b] Senate Republicans blocked a new effort to obtain Bush administration documents on global warming -- and did so today by doing nothing. (Boxer's effort to get broader access to the report, however, was turned aside. It takes two Republicans to join the majority Dem...
TPMmuckraker (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, who has notoriously avoided congressional testimony, declined to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee next week. The hearing on the EPA's refusal to provide Congress with documents relating to the health risks of global warming was...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
FRESNO, Calif. -- California's fourth-highest mountain peak would bear the name of the Sierra Club's late leader, if the state's U.S. senators get their way.
Laugh At Liberals Web Blog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Oil prices are falling again. I’m constantly checking the web to see when the Democrats aand mainstream media are going to George Bush the credit. Wait a minute. They blamed him for the price of oil going up, doesn’t that mean he get’s the credit for the price going down too? Yeah, right. Still, to see [...]
Science Pal (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Earlier this month, former EPA official Jason Burnett wrote to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) with explosive revelations on how the White House has neutered climate change science to protect corporate interests. For example, OMB general counsel Jeffrey Rosen asked for multiple memos on whether carbon dioxide (CO2) from cars and plants could be regulated differently. In a Senate hearing today, Burnett further...
