Barbara Boxer News

By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 25, 2008; Page A19 Under a subpoena threat from Sen.

Washington, D.C. - The devastating spring floods in the Midwest were "a wake-up call" that the nation's levees and other flood-control measures need to be evaluated and strengthened, the head of the U.S. ...

A former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official Tuesday contradicted EPA administrator Stephen L. Johnson's congressional testimony on one of the administration's key global warming decisions, saying the ...

Lawmakers want more federal money to study the safety of levees after dozens of breaches contributed to heavy flooding across the Midwest last month.

The number of reporters embedded with U.S. forces in Iraq declined dramatically after the surge in U.S. troop strength went full force last year and violence in the country, including U.S. casualties, started ...

The Environmental Protection Agency told the Bush administration that by law California should be able to set air-quality standards that were tougher than federal law, but President Bush rejected the advice and ...

Written By: Bonner R. Cohen Published In: Environment & Climate News Publication Date: August 1, 2008 Publisher: The Heartland Institute Supporters of a sweeping plan to address global warming by limiting use ...

Even if you offer Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., what she's been pushing for - taxpayer investments in "green" or renewable energy - she's not going to budge in her opposition to opening federal lands to oil and ...

The pauses are occasionally uncomfortable as Sen. Tim Johnson attempts to find his answer.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is poised to take control of a long-sought survey of radiation contamination at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a sprawling hilltop facility south of Simi Valley.

President George W. Bush's July 14 Rose Garden announcement that he planned to open the nation's coastline to offshore drilling had California's leaders smelling a rat.

From a release put out by the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works: U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer , Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today made the following ...

"Climate change poses real risks to human health," says the EPA's Joel Scheraga.

Upon entering Congress in 1987, Representative Nancy Pelosi quickly became part of the solid California front against oil drilling along much of the nation's coast.

A U.S. Senate panel took testimony Wednesday on bipartisan legislation that would protect nearly 475,000 acres of wilderness in California's Eastern Sierra and San Gabriel Mountains.

Congress blocked a cut in Medicare payments to doctors, overriding a veto by President George W. Bush .

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Senator Dianne Feinstein said the president is "deluding the American public" into believing new offshore drilling would lower gas prices at the pump.

Putting pressure on congressional Democrats to back more exploration for oil, President Bush on Monday lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling that his stood since his father was president.

Former Haas School of Business Dean Tom Campbell is on the campaign trail to become the next governor of California.