Senate Introduces America's Climate Security Act

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Senator Barbera Boxer, introduced legislation today that would direct the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to grant California a waiver under the Clean Air Act to cut global warming pollution from motor vehicles. If put into law, the measure would deal a blow to the automobile industry, which last year reluctantly came around to a new federal law that raises gas- mileage standards for the first time in more than three decades.