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Senator McCain plans to “hijack” landmark legislation on global warming.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee holds a field hearing in Los Angeles to examine the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to denyCalifornia's request for a waiver under the federal Clean Air Act to regulate carbon tailpipe emissions.

Sen. Boxer, chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee,  and other Senators respond to White House editing of the testimony given by Dr. Julie Gerberding, on the health effects of climate change on public health.

The Committee holds an oversight hearing on the planned Yucca Mountain site as a repository for U.S. spent nuclear fuel.

The Committee takes testimony from chief executives of major U.S. utilities as well as other key stakeholders. In addition, Committee member Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) discusses his emerging climate change legislative partnership with Sen.John Warner (R-VA).

Senator Barbara Boxer, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and Senators Frank Lautenberg and Sheldon Whitehouse meet with environmentally friendly CEOs to outline how Senate energy legislation and its energy-efficiency provisions would stimulate innovation and competition, strengthen the U.S.economy, and protect the environment.