Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said Democrats must move past former President Biden’s “tepid tone” on climate and take a harder line with voters. (Axios)
Whitehouse, now the top Dem on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said Democrats must frame climate not just as an environmental concern, but as a fight against corruption and rising household costs.
He criticized Biden officials for focusing on “green jobs and polar bears” instead of naming O&G companies as central to what he called “the biggest fraudulent operation in American history, the climate-denial operation, running next to one of the biggest corruption operations in American history—the dark money fossil-fuel influence operation.”