Sheldon Whitehouse
@SheldonforRI
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Delivering for Rhode Island in the U.S. Senate. Campaign account.
The Ocean State
Joined August 2012
Sadly, too many Democrats aren’t even aware we are in an information war, let alone how badly we are losing it. The entire Biden administration never figured this out, or for some reason they chose not to engage.
nytimes.com
Shifting politics, intensive lobbying and surging disinformation online have undermined international efforts to respond to the threat.
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Congratulations to “American Clean Power” for cutting a deal with the American Petroleum Institute, but to enact a law both the House and the Senate have to agree, and Senators are finding out about this for the first time.
America needs more power — fast. ⚡️ ACP and energy leaders urge Congress to pass the bipartisan SPEED Act to streamline permitting, reduce delays, and spur investment in critical infrastructure. It’s key to lowering costs and meeting rising demand. https://t.co/nqRrjkrZkf
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Climate change is driving up the cost of home insurance, compounding the housing affordability crisis.
bostonglobe.com
From Connecticut to Maine, coastal communities are feeling the pinch of higher home insurance rates and fewer options for coverage.
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Happy Thanksgiving! Hope this holiday brings you rest and joy with loved ones.
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The greater the nodes, the stronger the network.
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The question is not the U.S. but the fossil fuel industry’s free-to-pollute business model. Climate success or failure hinges on ending that. https://t.co/iuxJpECWbC
motherjones.com
Even with Trump's America absent, COP30 ended in a weak deal—and a win for petrostates.
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Basically, it’s a hydraulic system for moving money from ratepayers’ pockets to Trump’s fossil fuel donors’ pockets, hoping the ratepayers won’t see the scam and will instead blame the local utility that sent the bill. Don’t be fooled.
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Please pay attention. Trump is raising electricity costs deliberately. Suppressing clean energy drives the grid up the “generation stack” to more expensive fossil fuel plants, that set the grid price higher. https://t.co/OaR9cQn9w1
washingtonpost.com
Data centers are spiking electricity rates and angering voters.
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The Great Climate Insurance Collapse is coming at us. Republicans just keep on doing fossil fuel industry’s bidding as insurance costs go up and up. https://t.co/APNae1OFPd
nytimes.com
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
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Climate change is raising costs, pushing homeownership and the American dream out of reach. We have got to get on a pathway to climate safety.
oceanstatemedia.org
Rhode Island’s junior U.S. Senator says many international leaders at the COP30 conference finally recognized the necessity of addressing the rising cost of property insurance caused by more frequent...
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Why Democrats keep fighting to lower health insurance costs.
providencejournal.com
Since 2021, over 41,000 Rhode Islanders have relied on enhanced Obamacare subsidies to afford health insurance. What happens when those expire?
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Interesting
Bondi: They very publicly said what they are trying to do and it's illegal gerrymandering, they cannot do it. We sued them today. We will continue suing California until they start complying with the laws of our country.
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Americans know the truth about Trump’s economy. Grocery bills and health insurance premiums don’t lie.
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It’s less a question of IQ than dependence. Republicans are financially bound to a bunch of creepy billionaires and fossil fuel polluters. That’s who they listen to. That’s who pulls their strings. They’re caught in a trap — of their own making.
I don’t know who is advising congressional Republicans on strategy right now, but it is whoever it is has an IQ barely approaching room temperature. Republicans right now have no accomplishments, no plans, and no vision. Why on earth would anyone be excited to go vote for them
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WSJ and WaPo could swap the two editorials, and you’d never notice.
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