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Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Making child care affordable will lower one of the biggest costs in many families’ budgets, and reconciliation is the best vehicle we have to get it done. Leaving child care out is a terrible blow to working families. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Dark money has given the ultra-rich yet another way to trample the will of the American people. It’s time to get rid of it and put power back in the hands of voters. Let’s pass my DISCLOSE Act and get it done. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Big Oil has made a killing off of artificially high gas prices. @RepKhanna and I have a plan to take those excessive gains and send them back to working Americans in the form of a windfall profits clawback. Let’s get it done. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
We have two paths. The executive path must proceed now with speed and vigor. The legislative path depends on corporate America, which so far has sat it out or worse. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Trade associations are awol; big lobby groups are hostile; and that doesn’t even count fossil fuel’s armada of political front groups still sowing deceit, denial and dark-money obstruction. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Any legislation now must be bipartisan, which means corporate America has to stop hindering serious climate bills and firmly insist on Republican cooperation. Use your clout. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Our legislative collapse now compels forceful, firm and wide-ranging executive action across a broad array of fronts. He’s been left no other choice. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
I know Joe Biden. He is the eternal optimist. He held back on executive action, trusting that we could produce real climate legislation, and not wishing to disrupt our effort. His trust has not been rewarded. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
https://t.co/C44oa91FG4 — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
The administration should sit down with G7 partners, design carbon border tariffs, and create a carbon club of nations dedicated to decarbonizing. Good for the environment and a big win for American competitiveness! — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
(No trade association is any damned use on climate, big lobbies like Chamber are hostile, and the whole vast apparatus of corporate political influence ends up against us. Stop it.) — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
The president should use his bully pulpit to remind Americans of the danger, call out fossil fuel obstruction in Congress, and get the rest of corporate America to finally lean in on climate action, creating space in Congress for bipartisan climate successes. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
The Department of Energy has many energy efficiency rules it must strengthen. Together, these rules significantly reduce carbon pollution and they save families money. Win – win! — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Interior must by rule sharply limit methane emissions from oil/gas produced on federal lands/waters, use social cost of carbon to raise royalty rates, and reform bonding rules so companies can’t abandon wells to leak methane & leave taxpayers on the hook. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
It’s past time for DOJ to investigate the fossil fuel industry for its decades of lies. DOJ brought a civil RICO investigation against the tobacco industry for a similar history of dissembling and won big. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Satellite measurements can locate methane leaks to target strict enforcement against companies that are not in compliance. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
EPA must promulgate a rigorous rule limiting methane emissions from oil and gas facilities. The rule must apply across the supply chain, including low-producing (but high-leaking) wells, and crack down on venting and flaring not just leaks. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Green procurement can use the government’s immense purchasing power (more than $600 billion in contracts per year!) to decarbonize steel, cement, asphalt, buildings, vehicles, and so much more. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Heavy-duty trucks are also a huge source of carbon pollution. EPA doesn’t yet address this, and that needs to change. California’s advanced clean truck rule would increase zero-emission trucks, and EPA must follow suit. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Cars & light trucks are the single largest source of carbon pollution. EPA and DOT restored Obama-era standards, but now they need to go much further and push the industry towards manufacturing 100% zero-emission vehicles by 2035. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
But power plants aren’t just sources of carbon pollution – they also pollute our air and water with soot, heavy metals, and other toxic pollutants. EPA must tighten controls on PM 2.5 (soot), coal ash, mercury, nitrogen oxides, and more. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
WV v. EPA didn't end EPA’s ability to regulate carbon pollution from power plants. EPA options include requiring all coal- & gas-fired power plants to install carbon capture technology, as EPA did in 2015 for new coal-fired plants. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
OMB must promulgate a robust social cost of carbon (north of $100/ton) and require broad use across government decision-making – procurement, regulations, grants, leasing, permitting, royalty rates, investment decisions, foreign aid, trade agreements, & more. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Let’s review one by one what executive branch “Climate Beast Mode” might look like. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
With reconciliation foreclosed as a path for ambitious climate action, Congress must pivot to potentially bipartisan climate solutions such as a border carbon adjustment. Meanwhile, the executive branch has lots of tools at its disposal. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
This from a Supreme Court that has confessed that IT is the “unelected and politically unaccountable branch.” (Rucho) — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Gorsuch might complain about “unaccountable ministers” in our government, but the FedSoc 6 have proven to be exactly that. There are many ways to push back against the captured Supreme Court. My DISCLOSE Act is one of them. https://t.co/I1wWuLiKHg — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
Climate change is a scientific phenomenon and it will not wait for our politics to get sorted out. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
In Congress, Democrats have to get serious about loosening the fossil fuel industry’s chokehold on the Republican party so that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle can see a viable path to supporting a bipartisan climate bill. — PolitiTweet.org
Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse
There is opportunity in this moment. The Biden administration has a wide lane to step up and start taking vigorous action to fight the climate crisis. https://t.co/EYddBrVmga — PolitiTweet.org
