Since Citizens United, we have made really no bipartisan progress on any significant piece of climate legislation.
Sheldon Whitehouse
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Sheldon Whitehouse is a United States Senator from Rhode Island, serving since January 4, 2007. A member of the Democratic Party, Whitehouse has focused on a range of issues including environmental protection, healthcare reform, and campaign finance reform. He has been a vocal advocate for addressing climate change and has worked to promote policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions and protecting natural resources. Whitehouse has also been involved in efforts to reform the political campaign finance system, emphasizing the need for transparency and accountability in political donations.
It seems to me that it's fairly elementary economics that the negative externalities of a product ought to be included in the price of the product.
I see the malevolent force of the fossil fuel industry through its politics and through its dark money everywhere.
One of the things that I find very tiresome is how the State of Rhode Island has difficulty defending itself against out of State pollution.
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I worry in this context that the steel-aluminum arrangement that you are working on gets proposed as an alternative and is used as a stick.
I hope very much that that will be seen as a welcome step by the administration and one that we can try to meet and match.
I worry in this context that the steel-aluminum arrangement that you are working on gets proposed as an alternative and is used as a stick.
I hope very much that that will be seen as a welcome step by the administration and one that we can try to meet and match.
It can endanger entire communities and create a downward spiral that's difficult to emerge from.
I urge you to support a completely broad, across the government, multi-agency, not just you and a DOJ task force to respond.
No, no, no, no. Okay. Do any of you doubt that unusual risk is being caused by emissions from fossil fuel combustion? No, no, no, no, everybody accepts that that correlation exists, okay.
There is no chance in the world that the aluminum and steel arrangement will create anything like the emissions reductions of a proper carbon border tariff.
I can remember when the plan for dealing with pollutants coming out of power plants was to raise the smokestacks higher.
It can endanger entire communities and create a downward spiral that's difficult to emerge from.
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