Barbara Boxer - Environmental Problems and Protection

Sens. Boxer, Feinstein call on EPA to set drinking water standard for hexavalent chromiumU.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein have called on the Environmental Protection Agency to protect the public from hexavalent chromium following a report that found the carcinogen in ...

What do you need to survive? These effects may become environmentally devastating if we remain unaware of their possible consequences.The present Gulf of Mexico oil?spill presents an immediate and full-bodied example of this premise. Most United States citizens collectively view abundant and ...

EPA officials to more aggressively watch for repeat violations of safe drinking water lawThe Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a new national strategy to enforce safe drinking water laws in small, rural communities on Tuesday and pledged to redouble efforts to protect children ...

US Senate Democrats on Thursday pushed through a sweeping climate change bill, maneuvering an end-run around opposition Republicans who continued their boycott of deliberations.The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved the legislation by a vote of 11 to one, with the ...

Boxer plans Senate hearing on schools' toxic drinking water supplies following AP storyThe head of the U.S. Senate Environment Committee said Wednesday that legislators will hold hearings to address toxic drinking water in the nation's schools following an Associated Press probe into ...

Congress gets stuck on legislation creating federal clean-up standards for invasive speciesTiny foreign mussels assault drinking water sources in California and Nevada. They're a menace to U.S. drinking water supplies, native plants and animals, and they cost billions to contain.Yet Congress is ...

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, is criticizing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for blocking California from setting its own vehicle emissions standards, saying the agency is " The California emissions standards were scheduled to ...

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