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Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works | Ranking Member
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Republicans drive up the costs of everything from groceries to gas to homeowners' insurance by pretending climate change isn't real. Their fossil fuel donors get even wealthier, and you foot the bill.
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Trump Climate Endangerment Map
This series of maps shows how climate change is presently affecting our health and security by altering temperatures, snowpack and our water supply, increasing home insurance premiums, and spurring mo...
https://www.edf.org/maps/trump-climate-endangerment/
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
1 day ago
Trump is extracting money from familiesâ budgets and pumping it to his fossil fuel donors.
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Things you see inside Trumpâs Kennedy Center: pay-to-play corruption, shady dealings, and looters running the Center into the ground.
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What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center
I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/04/inside-kennedy-center-shutdown-drama/686801
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All our coastal areasâfresh and saltyâare in dire need of more resources and protection. In improving the value of our coasts, we should take inspiration from an old adage and lift all boats.
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Coastal Restoration in the Great Lakes
YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
https://youtube.com/live/jZKJ79YB6c4?feature=share
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Today's preliminary injunction makes clear what we knew all along: Trumpâs ballroom vanity project cannot continueâand never should have startedâwithout express approval from Congress. The President is a steward of the White House, not an owner.
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Judge Orders Construction Stopped on Trumpâs White House Ballroom
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/us/politics/trump-white-house-ballroom-construction-ruling.html
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The more this Administration rewards Trumpâs fossil fuel donors, the more youâre exposed to the risks and costs of climate change. You pay for it on your utility bills, at the supermarket, on your property insurance, and on your medical bills.
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Climate Change Is Driving Up Household Costs
YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
https://youtube.com/live/oegvS1Rp8UU?feature=share
24 days ago
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
about 1 month ago
Republicans drive up home insurance costs by pretending climate change isnât real â a service to their fossil fuel funders; a huge disservice to their constituents.
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US Home Insurance Prices Set to Keep Rising With Severe Weather
California is projected to see the biggest jump, while Florida is the most expensive market overall.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-18/us-home-insurance-prices-set-to-keep-rising-with-severe-weather
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
about 1 month ago
Americans are getting squeezed at the gas pump as Trumpâs War in Iran sends gas prices soaring and money flowing to his Big Oil donors. This week,
@khanna.house.gov
and I reintroduced a bill to curb this profiteering and provide relief to consumers.
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This is Trumpâs dirty scheme to raise your power bill.
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about 1 month ago
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Electric bills are up 13% nationally since Trump took office. His corrupt fossil fuel donors sell more oil, gas, and coal. You pay the bill.
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Exposing Trumpâs Dirty Scheme to Raise Your Energy Bills
YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
https://youtube.com/live/ZlhKtYnjs1Q?feature=share
about 1 month ago
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Robert Reich
about 1 month ago
I'll be testifying shortly before
@epw.senate.gov
to discuss how Trump's energy policies benefit Big Oil corporations and rich investors at the expense of our planet and our pocketbooks. I urge you to tune in.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlhK...
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Exposing Trumpâs Dirty Scheme to Raise Your Energy Bills
YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlhKtYnjs1Q
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@whitehouse.senate.gov
exposed Ric Grenell's corruption, cronyism, and gross mismanagement of the Kennedy Center. Now, Grenell is being replaced.
about 1 month ago
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
about 1 month ago
Trumpâs message is clear: polluters win; you lose.
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Trump and Zeldin lie through their teeth when they say theyâre protecting our health.
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about 1 month ago
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While the Committee convenes to discuss Clean Air Act legislation, the EPA has completely abdicated any and all responsibility to protect our air and climate. This corrupt EPA works for Trumpâs fossil fuel donors, no matter the cost to American families.
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Trump and Zeldinâs Dirty Work to Unleash Pollution
YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
https://youtube.com/live/xXMoA9t0otk?feature=share
about 1 month ago
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EPAâs own Inspector General found that BILLIONS in grants were awarded properly, refuting Trump EPA chiefâs baseless claims of 'waste, fraud, and abuse'. Zeldin's crusade has always been a total smoke screen to distract from his fossil fuel dirty work.
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EPA properly awarded $1.5B of now-terminated grants, federal watchdog says
The report is further evidence that Community Change Grants should not have been terminated, environmental groups say.
https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/epa-inspector-general-report-terminated-ej-community-change-grants-awarded-properly/814075/
about 1 month ago
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The chemical industry corrupts and corrodes. Trump and Zeldin welcomed them with open arms, and now their EPA takeover is complete.
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Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale
Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-formaldehyde-risk-assessment
about 1 month ago
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Great to see companies including Amazon, Google, and JPMorgan step up to tackle non-CO2 greenhouse gases. The climate fight must cut these super-pollutants, which cause more than half of global warming today.
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Google, Amazon, others team to cut climate "superpollutants"
Superpollutants are shorter-lived in the atmosphere than CO2 but have powerful near-term effects.
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/05/google-amazon-climate-superpollutants
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We need to extend expiring funding for our chemical safety law, the Toxic Substances Control Act. We need to reign in a corrupt, captured, anti-science EPA. We do NOT need to weaken chemical safety. Thatâs what this partisan proposal does.
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EPW Votes on Nuclear Safety Nominee, Discusses Chemical Safety Law
YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
https://youtube.com/live/KWR9V64LwOI?feature=share
about 2 months ago
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Burgumâs a liar. Data centers are sending energy bills soaring.
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about 2 months ago
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More pollution, and Zeldin is damn proud.
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about 2 months ago
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Another empty promise from Trump to lower your energy bills.
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about 2 months ago
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Under current leadership, the Corps of Engineers has stymied clean energy, disfavored coastal projects, and paused $11 billion in funding for Democratic states. A hard, fast, and convincing course correction is required to get the Corps on track.
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Army Corps failures & partisanship risk water resources bill
YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
https://youtube.com/live/BmVcstoo75A?feature=share
about 2 months ago
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The EPA used to work to keep deadly neurotoxins out of our air, food, and water. Now, they're erasing protections that would have saved 11,000 lives every year just to burn more coal.
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E.P.A. Weakens Limits on Mercury From Coal Plants
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/climate/epa-mercury-coal-plants.html
about 2 months ago
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Itâs not just more pollution, itâs higher costs. EPAâs own estimates show increased costs at the pump of at least $580 BILLION and up to $1.4 TRILLION over the next three decades. Thatâs money from your pockets to Trumpâs fossil fuel donors.
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âHistoric Climate Rollback Makes U.S. a Global Outlier on Tailpipe Rules
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/climate/endangerment-finding-auto-emissions-regulations.html
about 2 months ago
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Roses are Red, Violets are Blue Climate Change is Real, Trump's EPA wonât protect you.
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EPA reverses long-standing climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions
The agency announced it is repealing its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/epa-reverses-endangerment-climate-change-finding-rcna258452
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The Trump EPA has fully abandoned its duty to protect the American people from greenhouse gas pollution and climate change. The only winners today are Trumpâs fossil fuel megadonors.
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Trump Administration Erases the Governmentâs Power to Fight Climate Change
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/climate/trump-epa-greenhouse-gases-climate-change.html
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Cutting methane is a no brainer. Trumpâs bullying of the EU will hurt American companies, waste gas, and increase air pollution.
@whitehouse.senate.gov
and
@repscottpeters.bsky.social
led 24 Members of Congress in urging the EU to resist Trump's attacks and uphold its methane standards.
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To meet the challenges of the 21st century, we must repair and replace outdated infrastructure while ALSO maintaining and updating our cybersecurity capabilities. This is not an either or.
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Addressing cybersecurity threats to our nationâs water systems
YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
https://youtube.com/live/o4Pp8aNcxcc?feature=share
2 months ago
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Who caused the problem? đ
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2 months ago
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Trump did a hostile takeover of the Kennedy Center, installed loyalists to bless his power grab, and illegally named the building after himself. Now, amid a wave of boycotts and declining sales, he is trying to shutter the Center. Ranking Member
@whitehouse.senate.gov
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Experts agreeâthere is no permitting reform without project certainty.
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3 months ago
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The Senate could be working on bipartisan legislation to bring more clean, affordable energy to the grid. The Trump Administration doesnât want it.
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3 months ago
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Any deal to pass permitting reform needs certainty that laws will be faithfully executed. What good is it if any project can be struck down by a lawless and vindictive executive branch?
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Trumpâs lawlessness halts permitting reform in the Senate. No certainty, no reform.
YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
https://youtube.com/live/mBHXVqzIKLs?feature=share
3 months ago
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More Trump fossil fuel corruption is brewing.
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3 months ago
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Big Oil is fueling the climate crisis, and theyâve known for nearly 60 years. Theyâve been burying the truth and spreading disinformation to make a profit.
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@whitehouse.senate.gov
pushed the Senate to affirm that climate change is not a hoax. Shocking no one, a Republican objected.
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3 months ago
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This is the same EPA that believes your life isn't as valuable as Big Oil's business.
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The world is round. Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit. The climate is changing, and human-caused fossil fuel emissions are the primary cause. These are facts, but Republicans still wonât say itâanything for Big Oil.
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Republicans still wonât say it: climate change is real
YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee
https://youtu.be/-fq45Vy-L9s
3 months ago
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The Senate is ready to work on bipartisan permitting reform. Trump isnât.
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3 months ago
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Remember when the EPA protected our health? Not anymore. Zeldinâs legacy will be one of sickness, death, and more pollution.
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E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/climate/trump-epa-air-pollution.html
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Senate EPW Democrats
Elizabeth Warren
3 months ago
Oil companies shouldn't know more about Donald Trump's plans in Venezuela than the American people. I launched an investigation with
@whitehouse.senate.gov
, because every single American deserves answers.
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This polluter-driven stoogery shows the full extent of creepy pollutersâ control over the Trump Administration.
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Outrage as Trump withdraws from key UN climate treaty along with dozens of international organisations
Experts decry move to leave UNFCCC as âembarrassingâ as president orders withdrawal from 66 international groups
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/07/trump-international-groups-un
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The Trump Administration will stop at nothing to help Big Oil. Thereâs no point in passing a bipartisan permitting bill if this corrupt Administration wonât faithfully execute the laws.
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Despite the Trump Administrationâs lies, wind and solar are some of the cheapest energy sources.
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BREAKING: Senate Dems are investigating Trumpâs dealings with US fossil fuel companies surrounding the Venezuelan military actions. We want to know: - When they knew - Their communications with the Trump Admin - What the Trump Admin has promised them
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Democrats Seek Answers About Oil Industryâs Knowledge of Venezuela Operation
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/climate/democrats-oil-companies-venezuela.html
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NEW:
@whitehouse.senate.gov
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file an amicus brief to defend New York's right to hold polluters accountable. While the Senators fight to protect families, big polluters and their enablers fight to protect profits.
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Trump administration wants New York's Climate Change Superfund struck down
The law would create a fund to collect $75 billion from the biggest polluters over 25 years.
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/politics/2025/09/03/trump-administration-targets-superfund-act
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@whitehouse.senate.gov
introduced 16 resolutions to formally acknowledge the harms of climate change and toxic air pollution. An industry corruptly denying the dangers doesnât change the science. Itâs a choice between truth and falsehood, and we want to put the Senate on record.
4 months ago
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Trump admits âcoal needs a little public relations help.â Itâs that pesky black lung disease ruining coal's image! It's polluting, toxic coal for Christmasâcourtesy of Trump!
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Trumpâs assault on clean energy sinks permitting reform. There is no path to a bill if this administration refuses to follow the law. Trump will own higher electricity prices, aging infrastructure, & loss of U.S. competitiveness.
@whitehouse.senate.gov
&
@heinrich.senate.gov
's statement:
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