Incoming Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) announced she will restructure the panel to sharpen its focus on global warming next year. She designated herself to lead a new Subcommittee on Public Sector Solutions to Global Warming, Oversight, Children's Health Protection and Nuclear Safety, signaling that climate change legislation will be a top priority. She also named Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) to chair a panel with jurisdiction over industry and consumer solutions to climate change and Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) to lead a subcommittee focusing on the Clean Air Act and nuclear plant security. Lieberman and Carper have both previously sponsored bills to require mandatory reductions of C02 emissions. However, outgoing EPW Chairman James Inhofe (R-OK) has promised to block any effort to pass global warming legislation. Though Inhofe acknowledged that Boxer, with a one-seat majority on the panel, may be able to push a climate-change bill through the committee, he predicted that supporters of such legislation would not have the 60 votes needed to break a Senate filibuster.