Sheldon Whitehouse
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Senator: Climate is a winning issue, and Dems are missing out
Sheldon Whitehouse talks protecting our oceans, questioning Scott Pruitt, and forcing his party to rally around fighting warming
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Is Bernie Sanders the only one still talking about climate change?
The Democratic Party omitted any mention of climate change in its rebuttal Tuesday to President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address.
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Scott Pruitt testified before Congress and it got messy
Pruitt said he "doesn't remember" making negative comments about Trump in 2016.
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Environmental leaders on hope and progress in the age of Trump
Bernie Sanders, Annie Leonard, and more on where we go from here.
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Who is standing against polluters and for clean air?
Several Democratic senators have taken a hard-line stand against proposals to limit the EPA's ability to protect public health.
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So what happens when you dump 2 million gallons of toxic chemicals into the ocean?
Democrats were skeptical on Capitol Hill as senators heard sunny testimony about the whereabouts of all that Gulf oil and the impact of the Corexit that was used to disperse it. Meanwhile, longtime Gulf fisherman are alarmed by the strange sights they're seeing out there on the fishing grounds. Said one: "All the sea life is trying to get out of the water."
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The big stories out of Tuesday’s Senate hearing on Kerry-Boxer
Today’s hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee — the first of three days of hearings on the Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill — didn’t contain any big surprises. As Keith Johnson notes, Senators generally played their appointed roles. There are four stories out of today that seem notable. 1. Republicans are completely out […]