Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

Warming, acidifying, and rising oceans endanger our Rhode Island coasts.

climate change is real and that something needs to be done about it.

One of the things that we are learning, as you know, is that billions of tons of plastic is going into the oceans.

We are headed for a world in which there's actually more plastic waste mass in the ocean than there is living fish mass in the ocean.