Sheldon Whitehouse: “What the fossil fuel industry has done in our politics makes me think of Winston Churchill's phrase many years ago of…”

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

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 wins from this could be very very big ones. This should lower electricity costs measurably for Americans. This should increase clean power significantly for Americans. This should significantly add construction and jobs across the…

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