Sheldon Whitehouse

There needs to be a market price on carbon dioxide emissions.

It is that particular situation, I think, where we have to be very careful about how cooperative this federalism gets if you are not dealing with the polluted State as well.

It is very hard to ask Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Kentucky to crack down on pollution that is not landing in Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Kentucky.

I guess my question is what is the role of carbon dioxide emissions in contributing to that sea level rise, if any?

Those of us from coastal States take warnings like that from our Federal mortgage providers pretty damned seriously, as I think you would expect we should.

Pruitt's version of cooperative federalism is a one-way street toward more pollution.

Cooperative federalism is code for EPA and some States walking away from their core mission of protecting human health and the environment.

Cooperative federalism should mean that EPA and the States work together to reduce pollution.

But if they were running through a corporation domiciled in Delaware, you would not know that they were actually a Russian owner?

How do you look behind a shell corporation and find who is really behind it through your authorization process?

Can any customer amend your terms of service or is the terms of service a take-it-or-leave-it proposition for the average customer?

Are individual principals, p-a-l-s, principals of the firm also banned?

A lot of us in coastal States are seeing very significant harm to our ocean environments.

I specifically refer to my legislation with Senator Crapo which has passed the Senate...

As a lawyer, that would always be my advice to my client.

I am in favor of clean air and clean water, so I think steps should be taken...

The renewable energy industry has hit 3.3 million jobs, more than all fossil fuel jobs combined.

Its plan would add between 150 and 800 megawatts of large-scale solar by 2023, for instance, and between 3,150 and 3,800 megawatts of large-scale solar by 2033.

As the Nation's largest public utility, the TVA is uniquely positioned to lead the development of clean, reliable, American energy.

I do not think coastal projects should be second class citizens in your budget by this kind of a factor of 37 to 1.

I do not want to be in a position in which the budget does not authorize funding for coastal projects, that it is $40 million out of $1.4 billion, with the result that people do not apply because they look at that budget and say, it says…

I think this is a safe bipartisan place where real progress can be made.

The easiest way for Russians, for instance, to manipulate our elections is to put money into our elections.

I think that is important information for Americans to know, that the system is not serving them in terms of delivering actual progressivity.

I think that has been a policy foundation of our country for a long time.