Putting a price on carbon pollution is one of the best things we can do to stem the tide of climate change. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Fossil fuel companies and their allies are funding a massive and sophisticated campaign to mislead the American people about the environmental harm… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Not only will a carbon fee reduce carbon emissions, it will force big polluters to pay for the damage their pollution does… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The worst blows to humanity from carbon pollution may come at us from the oceans. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The American Republican Party is the last political bastion of the fossil fuel industry - now so in tow to the fossil… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Worldwide, our oceans are warming, rising, and becoming dangerously acidic as a result of carbon pollution and climate change - endangering much… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Citizens United is a disgrace of a decision, holding that corporate money is corporate speech and entitled to the same First Amendment protection as… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
We must unequivocally reject any cuts to Social Security or Medicare benefits. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
To be clear, I don't know whether the fossil fuel industry and its allies engaged in the same kind of racketeering activity as the… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others to attack… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Getting past the influence of the fossil fuel industry will take courage, especially on the part of the Republican majority whom they so relentlessly… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration's well-intentioned mortgage modification program. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Talking to my Senate Republican colleagues about climate change is like talking to prisoners about escaping. The conversations are often private, even furtive. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
