Sheldon Whitehouse: “It seems to me that it's fairly elementary economics that the negative externalities of a product ought to be included…”

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.

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

President Trump’s 2017 tax law and Big, Beautiful-for-Billionaires bill handed billionaires and big corporations massive tax breaks on private jets. The Trump administration now says it would be ‘burdensome’ to close the private jet tax…