EPW POLICY BEAT: SOME QUESTIONS FOR SEN. BOXER

- Sen. Boxer, why does your bill include “climate change worker adjustment assistance”? Does this mean that your bill will cause workers to lose their jobs?

- Sen. Boxer, your bill allows the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, on top of your cap-and-trade mandate. How is this conducive to regulatory certainty? Does this conflict with your call for a “market-based” program? - Sen. Boxer, by providing “rebates” to electricity consumers, are you acknowledging that, as President Obama said, electricity prices will “necessarily skyrocket” because of your cap-and-trade bill?

- Sen. Boxer, how does the “rebate” program work? Does it mandate that local distribution companies cut checks to consumers? Would those checks completely offset electricity price increases for consumers? Or is that the local distribution companies could provide “rebates” through, say, energy efficiency programs?
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-Senator Boxer, because this is a global issue, how does your draft ensure that other developing countries, such as China and India, will make binding emissions cuts that are as strict as those that are required for the United States under this Act?

Has the liberal moment come and gone? | Washington Examiner

The Gallup numbers also suggest that Barack Obama and the Democratic leadership in the House and Senate have fundamentally misread their own victories. Did voters elect Democrats because they desperately wanted national health care? Sprawling and expensive environmental regulation? Federal deficits triple the size of just a few years ago? No. The voters elected Democrats because they were sick of Bush and Republicans. Now Bush and the GOP are gone and out of power. Democrats are doing what they thought the voters wanted. And it turns out the voters didn’t want that at all.

Measuring China’s Wind Power Potential - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Currently, China gets less than 1 percent of its electricity from wind; coal, meanwhile, provides 80 percent.

Boxer pays off GE in climate bill « Green Hell Blog

So the Boxer bill would compel airlines and the military, when purchasing new aircraft and new aircraft engines, to purchase more expensive “green” engines made by GE, according to standards set by the current and GE-lobbied Obama administration.

Keep in mind that GE CEO Jeff Immelt is member of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Council.
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Other payoffs to GE will likely be unconvered as Boxer’s bill virtually requires the purchase of other GE products including wind turbines, solar panels and water products.