Posted on 12/05/2006 9:20:31 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Environmental rollbacks from the Bush administration "in the dead of the night" are history, the Senate's incoming environment chairwoman said Tuesday.
"That's over. We are going to bring these things into the light. " Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said in a wide-ranging interview laying out her agenda with The Associated Press. She cited concerns about a host of new Bush administration rules on air, land and water quality.
"Some of the things are so outrageous that when they hit the light of day, you'll see people back off," she said. "And that's something I do, and I will do. The oversight function of this committee is going to be very important to me."
Boxer, who takes over the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in January, anticipates fireworks as early as Wednesday when the outgoing chairman, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., holds a last hearing portraying the news media as fanning global warming alarmism.
Her first hearing next month will focus on ways to address global warming, including her goal of imposing the nation's first mandatory caps on carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
"This is a potential crisis of a magnitude we've never seen," Boxer said.
Several world leaders have called Boxer expressing their hope for a new day in U.S. environmental policy, she said, adding that "we want to send a signal to the world."
To help pay for Superfund sites that are the nation's worst contaminated, Boxer said she will push to reinstate a special tax on oil and chemical industries and other businesses. Congress that levy expire in 1995.
She also plans to hold field hearings in Louisiana on the environmental effects of Hurricane Katrina.
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""This is a potential crisis of a magnitude we've never seen," Boxer said."
That is the absolute worst hyperbole that the universe has ever experienced since the dawn of time!!
Will it be mandatory for everyone? It's a long bike ride to California.
Especially as there were no "rollbacks."
It's just a B.S. slam and a B.S. promise all in one.
The worst member of the U.S. Senate.
"She also plans to hold field hearings in Louisiana on the environmental effects of Hurricane Katrina."
I know it's lost on most, but the irony in that sentence would be funny were it not so sad.
"That is the absolute worst hyperbole that the universe has ever experienced since the dawn of time!!"
Well, at least she eschewed sesquipedalianism.
That said, it's too bad we ran out of witch hunts before we ran out of witches.
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., the incoming chairman of the Senate
Environment Committee, speaks to The Associated Press during an
interview in Washington Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2006. In a wide-ranging
interview Boxer spoke about her agenda, including her goal to
impose the nation's first mandatory caps on carbon dioxide and
other heat-trapping greenhouse gases. Environmental rollbacks from
the Bush administration 'in the dead of the night' are history, Boxer
declared Tuesday.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., the incoming chairman of the Senate Environment Committee, speaks during a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press in Washington Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2006. During the interview Boxer spoke about the cost of the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
"This is a potential crisis of a magnitude we've never seen," Boxer said.
Have to agree with that! Her “imposing the nation's first mandatory caps on carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases” is “a potential crisis of a magnitude we've never seen”.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., the incoming chairman of the Senate Environment Committee, speaks during a wide-ranging interview propaganda brain-storming and spinning session with The Associated Press
There haven't been any. She's objecting to any change in acceleration.
Ah lovely Babs Boxer(shorts). She'll be writing up legislation that will want to protect from extinction the Rainbow backed dung diving bordello beetle which is found only in the basements whore houses the South Bronx. The PETA crowd will be titillated ith Babs.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
"During the interview, Boxer bowled over the AP with her intellect and military prowess. We at the AP were awe struck as usual.
Excuse me, but don't we have enough problems in California for the Senator to work on? She has to go to Louisianna? Great. Let them pay the idiot.
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