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Boxer, who in 1995 banged a frozen chicken on her Senate desk to protest efforts to label frozen chickens as fresh, on Thursday banged away at her House counterpart, Rep. Fred Upton, a Michigan Republican who now chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Last month, Upton co-authored an article in the Wall Street Journal with Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, a free-market advocacy group, calling for a delay in the regulation of carbon-dioxide emissions by the Environmental Protection Agency until all legal challenges against the rules are settled.
"I want to send a clear message to Chairman Upton that I will use every single tool available to me as a senator from California and as chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee" to stop efforts to delay climate-change regulations, Boxer said. After she failed last year to enact her legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions, the prime mover to reduce emissions is now the EPA, which made an "endangerment finding" in December 2009 that carbon-dioxide emissions pose a threat to human health.
The Obama administration is moving ahead with regulations that will begin ordering emissions reductions by large industrial plants and coal-fired electricity generators.
Complying with court
Boxer argued Thursday that the agency is simply complying with a 2007 decision by the Supreme Court to determine whether greenhouse gases pose a health threat, and that the agency's findings are based on science. "The facts are clear, the science is clear and the law is clear," Boxer said.
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