Sheldon Whitehouse: “May I ask the Senator, through the Chair, if the letter from which he just read has a date?”

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.

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

We need more clarity on that.