Sheldon Whitehouse: “Cooperative federalism should mean that EPA and the States work together to reduce pollution.”

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

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.

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.