Sheldon Whitehouse: “Negative externalities should be in the price of a product and that to shift that cost to the public is a subsidy.”

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 introduced the Disaster Relief Fairness Act in July, which would require the federal government to approve disaster aid when a state meets FEMA’s criteria for assistance.

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

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