Sheldon Whitehouse: “Instead of urging that it`s time to wake up, I close this long run by saying now, it`s time to get to work.”

The fossil fuel-captured EPA’s decision to end its regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from power plants is a tragic and expensive mistake.

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.

We introduced the Disaster Relief Fairness Act in July, which would require the federal government to approve disaster aid when a state meets FEMA’s criteria for assistance.

We need more clarity on that, and when we have more clarity on that they’ll be back-and-forth to try to resolve those issues.