Sheldon Whitehouse: “If you care about deficits or economic growth, you have to care about climate change and its costs and risks.”

We need more clarity on that.

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.

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