Senator Whitehouse says corporate donations squelched climate change conversation since Citizens United

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island says prior to a vote to invoke cloture on the nomination of Lee Zeldin to be Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency in the second Trump Administration that scientific warnings about climate change from James Hansen and oil companies accurately predicted current conditions, but political progress stalled when the fossil fuel industry used Citizens United to inject hundreds of millions in funding to suppress congressional action through Republican opposition.
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island says prior to a vote to invoke cloture on the nomination of Lee Zeldin to be Administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency in the second Trump Administration that scientific warnings about climate change from James Hansen and oil companies accurately predicted current conditions, but political progress stalled when the fossil fuel industry used Citizens United to inject hundreds of millions in funding to suppress congressional action through Republican opposition.
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