Whitehouse: Call Out the Corruption Propelling the US Climate Retreat — SkimNews
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- Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island Democrat, has delivered more than 300 "Time to Wake Up" speeches on the Senate floor over the past 14 years warning colleagues they were "sleep-walking into climate disaster."
- Whitehouse launched his floor-speech campaign when Democrats controlled both the Senate and the presidency, a political alignment the source contrasts with the present moment's climate-policy retreat.
Why it matters: With 300+ speeches across 14 years, Whitehouse's persistent climate pressure now shifts from warning about inaction to naming corruption as the mechanism behind the retreat — redefining the fight as one about money in politics, not just attention in the chamber.
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