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Boxer promises change on global warming

Boxer promises action on global warming laws
She will lead environment committee
By JOHN HEILPRIN
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The Democrat poised to take over the Senate environment committee promises a ''sea change'' from six years of Republican inaction on global warming and says she expects Congress to send President Bush legislation to start curbing greenhouse gases.

Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, who will lead the Environment and Public Works Committee beginning in January, acknowledged Tuesday she may fall short of her goal: imposing the nation's first mandatory limits on industrial emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.

''I have no line in the sand,'' she said in an interview with The Associated Press. ''Even a little step will look like a big step.''

In the interview, Boxer also promised to end Bush administration rollbacks on environmental rules if they are not supported by science.

''Any kind of weakening of environmental laws or secrecy or changes in the dead of night -- it's over,'' Boxer said. ''We're going to for once, finally, make this committee an environment committee, not an anti-environment committee.... This is a sea change that is coming to this committee.''

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