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Fossil Fuel Is the New Slavery: Morally and Economically Corrupt

Robin Chase | Posted 10.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Barbara Boxer, Copenhagen 2009, Economy, John Kerry, Waxman-Markey, Slavery, Climate Change, Morality, Climate Bill, Green News

Ownership of another human being and reaping the benefit of their labor is repugnant. While burning fossil fuels is not as intimately observable or viscerally felt, there is a direct link from our actions to individual suffering.

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Green News Report - October 1, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 12.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Green Building, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Plastic Bottles, Coal, Barbara Boxer, Rising Sea Level, Mountaintop Removal, Green News, Logging, Climate Change, Climate Legislation, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Chamber of Commerce, Global Warming, Green News

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Landmark clean energy legislation finally drops in the U.S. Senate; EPA plows forward anyway; Scientists revise their pred...

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The Most AGONIZING Airline Delays: HuffPost Readers' Stories (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Flight Delays, Tarmac Delays, Slideshow, Barbara Boxer, Airlines, Slidepoll, Business News

Last week, Congress heard from passengers' rights groups about the urgent need to pass new airline regulations. Advocates say the proposed measures, w...

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CA Shocker: DeVore Ahead of Fiorina In Race Against Boxer

Mark Joseph | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: John & Ken Show, Gop, Barbara Boxer, Chuck DeVore, Republicans, Carly Fiorina, Democrats, California, 2010 Senate, Senate, 2010 Elections, Politics News

Sen. Boxer, who has coasted to victories over a series of weak candidates, may face the challenge of her lifetime should State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore make it to the show.

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Baucus Makes A Grab For Climate Bill

Politico | Lisa Lerer | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cap and Trade, Barbara Boxer, Senate Finance Committee, John Kerry, Max Baucus, Medicare, Healthcare, Climate Bill, Politics News

For liberal Democrats unhappy with the way Max Baucus is handling health care reform, here's another dose of bad news: He's got his hands on climate a...

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Californians Don't Trust State Government: Poll

LA Times | Cathleen Decker | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dianne Feinstein, Polls, California Budget Deficit, Barbara Boxer, California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Politics News

Public Policy Institute survey finds two-thirds expect bad economic times in the next year, and half fear job loss. But the survey also uncovers stron...

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Let Your Lawmakers Know that the Clock Is Ticking on the Climate Bill

Frances Beinecke | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Harry Reid, Green Jobs, Barbara Boxer, Copenhagen 2009, John Kerry, Global Warming, Climate Bill, Green News

Despite the misleading right-wing onslaught, recent polling shows just how popular clean energy legislation is with most Americans. Still, it will take a relentless drumbeat of support to drown out the industry's fear mongering.

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Senate Delays Climate Change Bill

Roll Call | Emily Pierce | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Barbara Boxer, Senate Finance Committee, Climate Change Bill, John Kerry, President Obama, Politics News

The Senate debate on climate change will be delayed until later this fall, given that two key players have said they will not even introduce their bil...

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Barbara Boxer And Colleagues Feel The Heat On Cap And Trade

blog.newsweek.com | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Cap and Trade Legislation, Cap and Trade, Barbara Boxer, Environmentalists, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Bill, Green News

Later today, more than 320 environmental and energy groups plan to deliver a letter to Calif. Sen. Barbara Boxer and her colleagues on the Senate Envi...

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Kerry And Boxer Challenge Palin To Debate

The Washington Post | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Kerry, Sarah Palin, Barbara Boxer, Boxer Kerry Palin Debate, Palin Resignation, He American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Energy Legislation, Cap, Center for American Progress, Politics News

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Arnold Schwarzenegger's Knife Play

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

What's been playing out in California could be the stubborn last gasp of the "Republican Revolution." What began in California might have to end in California.

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Grading a Climate Bill, Part 2

William S. Becker | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Energy, Waxman-Markey, Barbara Boxer, Clean Coal, Climate Change, Copenhagen, Renewable Energy, Greenhouse Gases, Congress, Obama, Green Energy, Energy Policy, Clean Air Act, Nuclear Power, Green News

It is perverse public policy to tell the nation's principal environmental watchdog it can't do anything about pollutants that have been officially declared a threat to public health and welfare.

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Grading a Climate Bill, Part 1

William S. Becker | Posted 08.19.2009 | Green

Read More: U.S. Senate, Democratic Congress, Barbara Boxer, Climate Change, Waxman-Markey, Copenhagen, Ipcc, Greenhouse Gases, Obama, Pope Benedict, Green News

If Mother Nature were handing out grades, she'd have a difficult time assigning one to the 1,200-page climate dissertation known as Waxman-Markey, now being considered by the Senate.

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Barbara Boxer Accused Of Being 'Racial' And 'God Awful'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Barbara Boxer, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Climate Change, Politics News

So, here's the story of how Senator Barbara Boxer got called a racist or whatever during today's climate change hearing. Harry Alford is the head of ...

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Clean Energy Action Will Jump Start Our Economy

Sen. Barbara Boxer | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Barbara Boxer, Global Warming, Energy, Cap and Trade, Sarah Palin, Oil, Sarah Palin Op-Ed, Green Energy, Energy Policy, Green News

As Sarah Palin moves away from public service, she takes her place with those who have fought efforts to protect the environment. She echoes all the tired old arguments that have been proven wrong again and again.

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New Bill Could be Powerful Economic Stimulus for Middle Class Firms

Chris Gunn | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Transparency, Small Business, Barbara Boxer, Hank Johnson, Charles Tiefer, Lloyd Chapman, Asbl, American Small Business League, H.R. 256, Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Fairness, US Chamber of Commerce, Politics News

Since '03, more than 15 federal investigations have uncovered the diversion of billions of dollars in federal small business contracts to Fortune 500 corporations and thousands of other clearly large firms.

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Senate Delays Work On Climate Change Bill By Months

Reuters | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Climate Change Bill, Barbara Boxer, Climate Bill Delayed, Senate Climate Bill, Senate Climate Change, Senate Delays Climate Bill, Environment and Public Works Committee, Climate Change, Politics News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's push for quick action by Congress on climate change legislation suffered a setback on Thursday when th...

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Inhofe: Nothing Could Make Me Vote For Climate Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sahil Kapur | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Waxman-Markey Bill, Climate Change Bill, Barbara Boxer, Renewable Energy, Carbon Emissions, James Inhofe, Senate Climate Bill, Clean Energy, Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Bill, Climate Change Bill Senate, Politics News

Senate Democrats are hoping to complete the task that their colleagues in the House began two weeks ago -- passing the most ambitious climate bill eve...

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Senator Or Ma'am? What To Call A Lawmaker

Politico | Andie Coller | Posted 07.23.2009 | Style

Read More: Barbara Boxer, Congress, Senator, Style News

With all due respect, it ain't easy to be duly respectful on Capitol Hill. With regulations that govern everything from hemlines in the Speaker's Lobb...

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Barbara Boxer: Call Me 'Senator' (VIDEO, POLL)

Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Video, Barbara Boxer, Boxer Call Me Senator, Call Me Senator Video, Barbara Boxer Call Me Senator, Poll, Senator Not Ma'am, Politics News

UPDATE: More fall-out from Sen. Boxer's insistence last week that the military officer she was questioning call her 'senator,' instead of 'ma'am.' Ch...

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Barbara Boxer: Call Me 'Senator'

Politics Daily | Posted 07.19.2009 | Home

Read More: Barbara Boxer, Call Me Senator, US Senate, Home News

Overheard at a Senate hearing yesterday: "Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am?' It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd ap...

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Coal Ash Spills Too Dangerous To Reveal To Public, Says DHS (VIDEO)

Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Barbara Boxer, Tennessee Coal Ash, Coal Ash, Coal Ash Spill, Dhs, Green News

Just how bad has the coal ash situation gotten in the United States? So bad that the Department of Homeland Security has told Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Ca...

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Five Legislators I May Not Vote For Again

Bruce Tenenbaum | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dianne Feinstein, Pharmaceutical Industry, Health Insurance, Henry Waxman, Barbara Boxer, Insurance Companies, Health Care, Barack Obama, Health, Politics News

This past month, my health insurance company raised premiums across the board 34%. The Democrats are already making noise about giving in to the insurance business. Why, then, did any of us vote for these fools?

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An Easy, Green Choice for Los Angeles City Attorney

Steve Fleischli | Posted 06.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Rivers, Sewage, Barbara Boxer, Santa Monica Bay, Stormwater, Carmen Trutanich, Ed Begley Jr., Environment, Clean Water, Jack-Weiss, Green Living, Los Angeles City Attorney, Los Angeles, Election, Green News

As a City Council member, Jack Weiss has a record overall on the environment that is excellent based on any measure.Environmental attorneys in Los Angeles like David Beckman and me support Jack Weiss.

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