Sheldon Whitehouse: “I'm not expert in epidemics and I don't know if there are accepted stages in the acceleration of an epidemic.”

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

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

We need more clarity on that.

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