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Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works | Ranking Member
@whitehouse.senate.gov
Energy prices are skyrocketing, and Trump’s “solution” is spending millions to revive expensive, polluting coal plants. This does nothing to make your bills more affordable. It’s a handout to the megadonors who helped get him elected.
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https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5586586-trump-coal-plants-energy-department/
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Big news: Zeldin discovers Americans actually like saving money on their energy bills
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E.P.A. Retreats From Plans to End the Energy Star Program
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/climate/epa-energy-star-program.html
10 days ago
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Trump was right about something—we DO need more energy on the grid. So, why is he gutting affordable clean energy that would help lower energy costs?
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11 days ago
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NEWS:
@whitehouse.senate.gov
led all EPW Dems to condemn the Trump Administration’s weaponized pause of $11 billion in water projects in blue states. This decision will hurt communities and jeopardizes bipartisan support on the Water Resources Development Act.
11 days ago
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Trump's privately funded ballroom is classic pay-to-play corruption. The public deserves to know exactly who is funding Trump’s vanity project—and what he has promised them in return.
17 days ago
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New Halloween costume just dropped. So bad it’s scary.
17 days ago
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Senator Angela Alsobrooks
19 days ago
My statement on Republicans trying to jam through the Environment and Public Works Committee a partisan resolution, breaking with years of precedent, for the relocation of the FBI headquarters:
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The Trump Admin pushes more industry cronies for the Polluters’ Protection Agency. EPW also considers bipartisan legislation to protect clean air, bolster clean nuclear energy, and save our seas.
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Senate Committee votes on Trump nominees, bipartisan legislation, FBI relocation, and more
YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
https://youtube.com/live/bxn_C3JlKik?feature=share
19 days ago
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The FBI wants to move into a DC building located on top of a Metro stop AND a public parking lot. Great for a Spirit Halloween, not for one of our top national security agencies.
19 days ago
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Trump’s attacks on clean energy are sending your bills soaring, but at least his ballroom is coming along.
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23 days ago
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He's already torn through the Constitution. Of course he bulldozed the People’s House.
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24 days ago
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
25 days ago
Back in January, I predicted that the fossil fuel Looters and Polluters would take over the federal government. I’m saddened—though not surprised—that my grim forecast has already come true. I’m headed to the Senate floor for my 302nd Time to Wake Up speech.
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How many fossil fuel-funded Republicans does it take to deliver on one president's promise? Trump pledged to cut your energy bills in half. Instead, costs are UP 10% and STILL CLIMBING.
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Trump plans to eliminate a project that would help power a CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL with affordable and reliable clean energy. Bad for kids, bad for the planet, but good for Big Oil.
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E&E News: Trump’s budget ax hits pediatric hospital’s microgrid plan
DOE canceled a $30 million grant for batteries that would keep a large California hospital operating during blackouts.
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/10/09/trumps-spending-axe-hits-pediatric-hospitals-microgrid-plan-00598026
26 days ago
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With the right leadership, TVA has transformative power to lead the energy transition. Instead, Trump has nominated political cronies who could help push TVA into private hands and raise energy costs—all to curry favor with his fossil fuel donors.
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These are Trump’s nominees for the nation’s largest public power company
YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
https://youtube.com/live/hEBTaiILoJo?feature=share
26 days ago
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As climate change worsens, homeowners' insurance becomes more expensive and harder to get. Families in North Carolina are feeling the pain.
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US Sen. Whitehouse links rising insurance costs to climate change at Raleigh roundtable • NC Newsline
The Rhode Island Democrat says his home state and North Carolina share similar risks from climate change.
https://ncnewsline.com/2025/10/14/us-sen-whitehouse-links-rising-insurance-costs-to-climate-change-in-raleigh-roundtable/
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Legions of experts are sounding the alarm about the multiple threats that climate change poses to the global economy. The IMF must not cave to Trump pressure to sideline its climate work. Doing so would be a grave mistake.
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Senate Democrat Urges More IMF Climate Work Amid Trump Pressure
Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse urged the International Monetary Fund to keep up with its work on climate, as the Trump administration criticizes the lender’s approach to the topic.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-17/senate-democrat-urges-more-imf-climate-work-amid-trump-pressure?taid=68f2566bf98ed0000173ba9b&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&embedded-checkout=true
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The Trump Admin is trying to sell Americans on the benefits of less efficient cars. This will cost families $23 billion more at the pump, generate more pollution, & worsen health outcomes. That's money out of your pocket & into the pockets of fossil fuel donors. How's that for draining the swamp?
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about 1 month ago
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The real energy emergency is skyrocketing energy costs—all so Trump’s fossil fuel donors can sell more oil and gas.
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about 1 month ago
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Canceling life-saving investments, bragging about it, and then watching as a village gets washed away. That tells you everything about Trump and Zeldin’s priorities.
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Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/climate/kupnik-alaska-typhoon-trump-epa-flood.html
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Insurance costs are soaring in areas with high climate risk, like North Carolina. No insurance = no mortgage. No mortgage = no buyers. No buyers = property values crash. This is how climate risk leads to economic collapse.
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about 1 month ago
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
about 1 month ago
Here’s how/why Republicans jack up your electric rates: stall/kill clean energy projects, so expensive fossil fuel plants have to come online to pick up slack. Polluting plants, otherwise idle, now get paid; your money goes to corrupt payday for big Trump donors.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/trump-officials-drop-major-solar-power-project-in-another-renewable-energy-attack"
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While the rest of world is investing in technologies of the future, Trump's big, brilliant idea for our future is to burn more dirty and expensive fossil fuels.
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Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 | Ember
Solar and wind outpaced demand growth in the first half of 2025, as renewables overtook coal’s share in the global electricity mix.
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/global-electricity-mid-year-insights-2025/
about 1 month ago
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎
about 1 month ago
North Carolinians know firsthand the devastating impact of climate-fueled extreme weather. Thank you
@whitehouse.senate.gov
&
@ross.house.gov
for leading a roundtable with
@nclcv.bsky.social
& EJ partners to expose how the climate crisis makes homeowners' insurance less affordable & accessible 👇
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Trump's lies debunked by his Administration's own data—wind and solar energy lowers energy costs.
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The government’s own data rebuts Trump’s claims about wind and solar prices
The Trump administration has targeted renewable energy for driving up electricity prices, but POLITICO’s analysis shows states that are growing their wind and solar power typically have lower power co...
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/07/green-electricity-costs-cheap-trump-00594123
about 1 month ago
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Representative Deborah Ross
about 1 month ago
Climate change isn't just about melting icebergs. It's also about higher costs for homeowners' insurance. Renters and homeowners from Rhode Island to North Carolina and beyond know this. Thanks to
@whitehouse.senate.gov
for visiting NC to talk about the cost of climate change.
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Across North Carolina, climate risk is making homeowners’ insurance more expensive and harder to find.
@whitehouse.senate.gov
and
@ross.house.gov
host a roundtable to hear from local policymakers, state officials, researchers, insurers, and community leaders.
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Rep. Ross and Sen. Whitehouse Roundtable
YouTube video by NC League of Conservation Voters
https://www.youtube.com/live/zcqWGiJcj-4
about 1 month ago
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Because of Trump’s Big Crypto donors, the data center bomb is falling on families who are suddenly watching their electric bills skyrocket.
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about 1 month ago
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Trump and his fossil fuel donors made a deal to jack up your energy bill. They’re hoping you don’t notice.
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about 1 month ago
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The climate-driven insurance crisis is threatening the global economy. It’s the $25 trillion dollar hit the fossil fuel industry doesn’t want you to know about.
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about 1 month ago
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Trump nominees for our nation’s nuclear safety regulator & EPA's chemical office testify. One faces political pressure to prioritize speed over nuclear safety. The other spent 20+ years lobbying to protect polluters over people.
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EPW considers Trump’s picks for nuclear safety regulator & EPA's chemical office
YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
https://youtube.com/live/qdpXC5pYzPc?feature=share
about 1 month ago
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Yet more evidence that the Trump administration’s climate denial report is full of lies. Who could’ve guessed…
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How a major DOE report hides the whole truth on climate change
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2025/chris-wright-doe-climate-change-report/
about 1 month ago
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This will raise Americans' energy prices. The President should serve the American people, not just the ones that voted for him.
about 2 months ago
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The American people deserve a President not a mob boss.
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Trump Cuts Funding to 16 Blue States That Didn’t Vote for Him
Amid the shutdown fight, Donald Trump is increasing pressure on states with two Democratic senators.
https://newrepublic.com/post/201223/trump-cuts-energy-funding-16-blue-states-democrats-shutdown
about 2 months ago
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On one side of the Permian basin, good policy cut methane pollution in half. It’s keeping the air clean & gas in the pipes, saving ratepayers tens of millions of dollars. The other? Big Oil pulls Republican strings, and toxic pollution continues unabated.
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NM officials say methane rules have cut emissions by half compared to Texas
SANTA FE — The invisible line splitting the Permian Basin divides the oil-rich area into two different states — Texas and New Mexico — with two different sets of rules
https://www.abqjournal.com/business/energy/article_396b1f65-613e-47cc-b461-6f9f401ebc05.html
about 2 months ago
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When it comes to sky-high premiums and climate-driven chaos in homeowners’ insurance, Florida is first and worst. Other states will follow until the insurance crisis brings down our whole economy.
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How McKinsey and Climate Change Wrecked Insurance
A secret report shows that Florida underwriters were banking massive profits while stiffing customers. Welcome to insurance in the era of climate collapse.
https://newrepublic.com/article/199749/like-bad-neighbor
about 2 months ago
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Coal is deadly for families and the planet. Coal power is the most expensive and polluting of any energy source. As Trump wages war on affordable, clean energy to appease his fossil fuel donors, he's jacking up Americans’ energy costs and tanking Americans’ health.
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about 2 months ago
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Classic Trump corruption. His fossil fuel donors get rich selling more gas and more oil while your energy bills continue to climb.
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about 2 months ago
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Climate change is rocking the insurance industry and sending families’ premiums soaring. The domino effect to crashing property values threatens to trash our entire economy—just like 2008.
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about 2 months ago
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NEWS: Defying decades of evidence and a landmark Supreme Court decision, Trump's EPA is trying to formally deny that greenhouse gases are harmful. Led by
@whitehouse.senate.gov
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@schumer.senate.gov
, Senate Dems are fighting back against this assault on our health and our climate.
about 2 months ago
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Trump’s EPA is launching the next phase of Big Oil’s corrupt climate fraud operation.
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about 2 months ago
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When even your own numbers show your fossil fuel handouts will hike prices at the pump...
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about 2 months ago
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Scientists confirm greenhouse gas emissions harm human health. In other news, Pope is Catholic.
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Top Scientists Find Growing Evidence That Greenhouse Gases Are, in Fact, a Danger
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/climate/national-academies-climate-trump.html
about 2 months ago
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Republicans in Congress dance whatever jig their fossil fuel donors demand.
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about 2 months ago
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NEWS:
@whitehouse.senate.gov
investigates extent of industry groups’ back-room involvement in EPA's proposal to repeal the endangerment finding. This dangerous decision would allow polluters and their enablers to reap billions while poisoning our air and endangering families.
2 months ago
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A former fossil fuel CEO wants you to believe climate change is "not incredibly important." Fork found in kitchen.
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Energy Secretary Attacks Offshore Wind and Dismisses Climate Change
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/climate/wright-energy-offshore-wind-turbines.html
2 months ago
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The Army Corps must do better to address problems like coastal storm risk and political bias in its decision-making. It’s time for the agency to work with Congress to serve the American people.
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Dems Address Army Corps Challenges and Reform
YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
https://youtube.com/live/K-Slef4d-mE?feature=share
2 months ago
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Hiding the facts from the American public won’t erase the mounting costs of climate change, but it will erase the best evidence we have that American industry is cleaner than many of its competitors. You know it’s bad when even industry players aren’t applauding Trump's EPA.
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EPA says companies shouldn’t have to report planet-warming emissions
The announcement amounts to a major rollback that would eliminate the primary means of tracking climate goals. The EPA framed it as a cost-cutting measure.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/09/12/greenhouse-gas-emissions-reporting-epa/
2 months ago
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The corrupt fossil fuel industry paid millions to put Trump in office. Now, they’re getting exactly what they paid for—they get to sell more gas, while energy prices skyrocket for American families. Families’ energy bills are already 10% HIGHER since Trump was sworn in.
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Oil Tycoons Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off.
The Trump administration has opened land to drilling and is moving to roll back environmental restrictions and hobble renewable energy. But crude prices have dropped.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-oil-industry-executives-policies-85eb74e6
2 months ago
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American families cannot afford climate inaction, and we urgently need real solutions. Meanwhile, Trump’s EPA is backsliding on climate pollution.
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EPW considers clean air legislation
YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
https://youtube.com/live/8qvvTOvIp3Y?feature=share
2 months ago
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