Sheldon Whitehouse: “I want to assure her that I am firmly on the side of those who think that you should enforce the Clean Air Act as the…”

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

“must pay for any network upgrades needed to serve their big demand, so ratepayers don’t bear the cost burden of added infrastructure.”

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

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.