Sheldon Whitehouse: “Nature keeps sending us messages about what is happening out there. And in Washington we continue to ignore those…”

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

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

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

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.