Editing Barbara Boxer (section)

===Environment===
Boxer successfully led the 2003 Senate floor battle to block oil drilling in the [[Arctic National Wildlife Refuge]].<ref>For the whole section, except where noted: [http://boxer.senate.gov/issues/environment/index.cfm Boxer Website: The Environment], Accessed May 6, 2006 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106104012/http://boxer.senate.gov/issues/environment/index.cfm |date=January 6, 2010}}</ref> In 2005, Boxer voted again to block oil drilling at ANWR.

Boxer introduced the National Oceans Protection Act (NOPA) of 2005.<ref>[http://www.oceanconservancy.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr010=ufev20xk71.app1b&abbr=press_&page=NewsArticle&id=7343 oceanconservancy.org: Senator Boxer Introduces National Oceans Protection Act of 2005], Accessed May 6, 2006 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927033051/http://www.oceanconservancy.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr010=ufev20xk71.app1b&abbr=press_&page=NewsArticle&id=7343 |date=September 27, 2007 }}</ref>

Boxer was an original cosponsor of Senator [[Jim Jeffords]]' (I-VT) [[Clean Power Act]].<ref>[http://epw.senate.gov/107th/box_061202.htm Senate.gov: Statement by Barbara Boxer before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, June 12, 2002], Accessed May 6, 2006</ref>

Boxer was the Senate sponsor of the [[Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act]], which was signed into law by President [[George W. Bush]] on October 17, 2006. The bill protected {{convert|275830|acre|km2|0}} of federal land as [[wilderness]] and {{convert|21|mi|km|0}} of stream as a [[wild and scenic river]], including such popular areas as the [[King Range (California)|King Range]] and [[Cache Creek (Sacramento River)|Cache Creek]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=pubLawLibResults&PLID=150&WID=0 |title=Wilderness Law Library |publisher=Wilderness.net |date=October 17, 2006 |access-date=May 25, 2010}}</ref>

Boxer, along with her colleague Dianne Feinstein, voted in favor of subsidy payments to conventional commodity farm producers at the cost of subsidies for conservation-oriented farming.<ref>{{Cite news|title=California Farmers Reconsidering Opposition To Subsidies |author=Becker, Elizabeth |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/08/us/california-farmers-reconsidering-opposition-to-subsidies-443638.html | date=April 8, 2002 | access-date=April 26, 2010}}</ref>