Senator Boxer: We Need Climate Bill Now to Avoid Dire Results

Senator Barbara Boxer has long been the "Senate's top ranked environmentalist", and is now facing an issue that could seal her legacy. She is currently working on a bill to curb greenhouse gases emissions aiming to have it passed by September 2009. According to McClatchy:

If the Senate doesn't pass a bill to cut global warming, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer says, there will be dire results: droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more.

She says there's a huge upside, however, if the Senate does act: millions of clean-energy jobs, reduced reliance on foreign oil and less pollution for the nation's children.

The House has already passed Waxman-Markey, and Boxer is optimistic her plan can build upon this and gain support, which she already has from the Obama administration.

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Posted by Jennifer Lance at July 14, 2009 2:29 PM