With her U.S. Senate race stuck in a dead heat, Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer tried to appeal to swing voters Tuesday by asserting that she will be a better protector of the environment – and green jobs – than her GOP opponent Carly Fiorina.

Boxer appeared briefly in South San Francisco Tuesday at Solazyme, a 100-employee company that is pioneering a technology that extracts oil from algae. There she stressed her opposition to Proposition 23, a measure on the November ballot that would badly damage AB32, the state’s landmark climate-change law.

MINNEAPOLIS – Congressman Keith Ellison will host a Clean Energy Jobs Forum Wednesday in Minneapolis to discuss how to make good, clean energy jobs available to all Minnesotans.

The forum will feature Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, CEO of http://www.greenforall.org/ Green for All, a national organization working to build an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty.