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Sheldon Whitehouse: To deliberately ignore [the laws of physics] for short-term profits that set up people for huge, really bad impacts—if…

On the recordJuly 11, 2025
To deliberately ignore [the laws of physics] for short-term profits that set up people for huge, really bad impacts—if that’s not a good definition of evil, I don’t know what is.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island
Source
motherjones.com
Jul 11, 2025

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Whitehouse condemns the fossil fuel industry's actions as evil.

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