green LA girl (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Californians are taking charge of greening our country! > > U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer is the chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee — and she’s introduced 2 big green bills: A directive to the U.S. EPA to develop a carbon cap-and-trade system by amending the Clean Air Act, and a $15 billion a year [...]
Environmental Capital (Free subscription) | yesterday
So the race is on to craft environmental legislation for next year. Sen. Barbara Boxer announced her plans to introduce a bill that will put President-elect Obamas climate-change plans in legislative form. Coincidentally or not, Sen. Boxers declaration came just hours after the House Energy Committee got a new chairman committed to tougher curbs on greenhouse-gas emissions. California Sen. Barbara...
bilerico.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Editors' Note: Guest blogger Terry Leftgoff formerly served as the highest ranking openly gay officer of the California Democratic Party and oversaw numerous campaign efforts including local unified Democratic campaigns for Bill Clinton, Dianne Feinstein, and Barbara Boxer, among others. He is currently an Environmental, Government & Public Relations consultant living in West Hollywood. Terry is single...
Pop + Politics (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Our western forests are under attack. All across the west, a bark beetle, which is the size of a piece of rice, is turning grown trees into red dust. The New York Times reported recently that “Montana has lost a million acres of trees to the beetles, and in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming the [...]
News Beast (Free subscription) | yesterday
CNET - A sampling of green-tech news with quick commentary.
IOL (Free subscription) | yesterday
The US Senate will take up two sweeping global warming bills in January.
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
By David Roberts Today, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, announced that she will introduce two pieces of green legislation in January . Barbara Boxer. The first is a proposal to create a grant program that would hand out $15 billion a year to support clean energy innovation. This is in line with Barack Obama's campaign promise to spend $150...
NC Media Watch (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Russ SteeleFrom the Bee Capitol Alert which just popped into my e-mail box:Rep. Henry Waxman of California unseated the most senior member of the House in an internal Democratic caucus vote in Washington today to put the California Democrat at...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Is that Sen. Barbara Boxer finishing up preparations for the Dem Senate caucus's "Welcome Back, Joe" bash? by Ken A n online list colleague was venting suspicion as to the absolute solidarity of our friend Senator Lieberman now that he's been so happily restored to the bosom of the Senate Democratic caucus. Specifically, he was casting doubt as to our Joe's absolute reliability as a clinching 60th...
Bradenton.com: Politics (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
In a major win for environmentalists, a committee of Democratic leaders in the House of Representative voted Wednesday to put Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman of California in charge of a key panel that will have oversight over global warming issues in the new Congress.
Pro-Life News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
By Nat Hentoff During a July 17, 2007, speech before the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, then Sen. Barack Obama pledged: "The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act." That is a bizarre way "to...
Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President George ...
Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Bill Nelson's been named to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's leadership team. Nelson will serve as one of three deputy whips -- expected to play a role in marshalling the caucus. Chief Deputy Whip is California Sen. Barbara Boxer.
The Nation Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
John Nichols In hopes of preserving his loyalty to the caucus, Senate Democrats took a calculated risk and decided not to punish Joe Lieberman for flirting with the GOP. Will it pay off?
The Nation Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Obama, Reid moves prevent an accountability moment. But we can still laugh at Joe.
