Senate takes up climate change
When the House of Representatives voted on a climate change bill, LA Democrat Henry Waxman led the charge. Now the ball is in the Senate’s court – and another Californian is playing a leadership role. KPCC’s Washington Correspondent Kitty Felde reports.
Kitty Felde: Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer told fellow members of her Environment and Public Works Committee that fighting climate change can also battle a bad economy. Just look at California, she said, where investing in clean energy created more than 125,000 new jobs over a decade.
Senator Barbara Boxer: In California, which has been one of the hardest hit by the housing crisis and the financial crisis, the area that has out-performed every other has been the creation of clean energy jobs and businesses.
Felde: Three cabinet secretaries urged Boxer’s committee to pass a climate change bill this summer. Republicans say China and India aren’t interested in reducing their carbon emissions – and they question whether U.S. action alone could lower the world’s temperature.
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