Sheldon Whitehouse: “Climate change will likely become a source of shocks to the financial system that would lead to declines.”

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

We need more clarity on that.

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

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