Sheldon Whitehouse: “And do you think that the New Source Performance Standards have driven down actual fugitive methane emissions from oil…”

This is a hugely important milestone but there are two big pieces of work in front of us.

We need more clarity on that.

Most of the dealbreaker humps we’re over, but now it’s refining the language, taking raw agreements into legislative texts and figuring out what schedule for voting succeeds.

The fossil fuel industry and their allies bought their way into the Trump White House with hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations.