Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
About the Committee
This committee has jurisdiction over environmental regulation and policy, including air pollution and water quality, as well as highway construction, public works, and nuclear energy.
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Subcommittees
- Clean Air and Nuclear Safety
- Public Sector Solutions to Global Warming, Oversight, and Children's Health Protection
- Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection
- Transportation Safety, Infrastructure Security, and Water Quality
- Transportation and Infrastructure
- Superfund and Environmental Health
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- On May 21, 2008, the committee passed a bill to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to deny California a waiver that would allow it to set automobile fuel standards that are more strict than those set by the federal government. The measure passed 10 to 9.[1] In an accompaning press release, Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer said "Administrator Johnson's decision to deny the waiver was not supported by the facts, by the law, by the science, or by precedent. Just this week we learned of more evidence that the Bush White House intervened to kill the waiver for California. Today's action in the Environment Committee brings us one step closer to giving a green light to California and the other states so they can begin tackling global warming pollution from vehicles."[2]
Endnotes
- ↑ Senate panel overturns EPA on state's effort to curb greenhouse gas, The Associated Press, May 22, 2008, http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-fi-greenhouse22-2008may22,0,1890401.story
- ↑ Bill to Reverse EPA Denial of California Vehicles Waiver Passes Senate Environment Committee, Press Release, May 21, 2008, http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Majority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=0cbdf5b7-802a-23ad-41d4-585de34b24c9&Region_id=&Issue_id=
