Senate EPW Democrats

With this decision, Trump and Zeldin are stoking climate change, threatening your health, and driving up your costs.

Read @SenWhitehouse’s statement on EPA’s latest pro-polluter scheme ⤵️
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"The endangerment finding is the bedrock scientific finding underpinning EPA’s greenhouse gas regulations, and the Trump Administration’s repeal has the fossil fuel industry’s oily fingerprints all over it ... Administrator Zeldin’s corrupt giveaway doesn’t change the science, but by wishing away the problem, this Administration leaves EPA without the tools to forge a solution. " - Ranking Member Whitehouse

BREAKING: Ignoring decades of evidence, EPA moves to erase the scientific foundation for regulating toxic climate pollution.

This is Big Oil’s dream—and the American people’s nightmare.

EPA determined greenhouse gases harm human health nearly 20 years ago.

Now, under Aaron Szabo’s leadership, EPA is poised to reverse this finding—ignoring scientific facts—and endanger your health.

We’re going to hold him accountable.

Trump’s EPA is dismantling the office charged with holding polluters accountable.

Mind Over Methane: The No-Brainer Climate, Economic, and Health Solution YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee

The oil and gas industry is releasing methane into our air, warming our planet, raising our costs, and choking our children.

While Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin make it easier to pollute, we will keep fighting back.

"Big, Beautiful Bill" Republicans' "Big, Beautiful Bill" kills 300 gigawatts of wind and solar through 2035. In 5 years, your power bills will be $265 higher. In 10 years, your power bills will be over $280 higher.

This is how families get screwed for Republicans’ big fossil fuel donors.

Right-Wing Leader Says Conservatives Need 'Scalps' of Woke Wall Street CEOs Lisa Nelson, ALEC’s CEO, said conservatives need a “scalp” from either Bank of America’s Brian Moynihan or BlackRock’s Larry Fink.

Anti-ESG nonsense has always been a theatrical production with actors, script writers, & directors bought & paid for by the fossil fuel industry.

Now, fossil-fuel-funded Republican operatives & lawmakers are targeting the Wall Street executives who’ve warned about the climate risks.

Evaluating nominees to lead EPA’s environmental law enforcement, Council on Environmental Quality YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee

WATCH: Ranking Member @whitehouse.senate.gov leads EPW Dems in evaluating EPA, CEQ nominees.

Jeffrey Hall—the nominee to lead EPA’s environmental law enforcement—is a MAGA hack chosen for his willingness to bend the knee to polluters.

"Administrator Zeldin’s attempts to silence the science won’t erase the harms of toxic chemicals, but it will leave all of us dangerously unprepared to face them. He clearly lied when he testified that he would respect the science and listen to the experts; he’s too busy firing them." - Ranking Member Whitehouse

For decades, the Office of Research and Development has led the way in protecting Americans from dangerous pollutants.

Lee Zeldin, Trump's EPA chief, just eliminated the office.

From Providence to Phoenix, the next transportation bill must and will invest in our communities, while taking climate change seriously.

Thanks Mayor Gallego for sharing your expertise with us today.

Phoenix's Mayor Gallego is right. We must invest in resilient infrastructure.

The next reauthorization bill must and will take climate change seriously.

We MUST invest in our nation’s infrastructure. The Trump Admin’s lawlessness stands in the way YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee

We must make investments in our transportation systems that reduce emissions, prioritize safety, bolster resilience, and meet communities' needs.

But it will be impossible to accomplish this until the Trump Admin ends its assault on the rule of the law.

Increased political interference at NRC is threatening a safe future nuclear energy fleet.

We need a chairman that will retain and attract top experts.

"Trump’s DOJ is continuing its mischief by falsely claiming Republicans’ Big Beautiful-for-Billionaires Bill claws back $17 billion from GGRF, even though the CBO score for the unobligated funds was $19 million—what was left to oversee the program after the grant funds had been obligated—and Republicans made clear that their rescissions only touched unobligated funding. Wishful thinking on the part of DOJ does not moot the ongoing litigation." - Ranking Member Whitehouse

The Trump Admin launched an all-out assault on the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which helps lower energy bills and makes communities more climate resilient.

Now, it claims the Big, Beautiful-for-Billionaires Bill can rescind obligated funds. Another lie to serve the polluters.

More about the legislation co-led by @dorismatsui.bsky.social and @kevinmullin.house.gov in the House ⤵️
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INTRODUCED: Two bills to reduce ocean shipping pollution. - The Maritime Pollution Accountability Act - The Clean Shipping Act

We need an all-hands-on-deck approach to avoid the worst consequences of climate change.

@whitehouse.senate.gov & @padilla.senate.gov's bills cut harmful ocean shipping pollution, setting us on course to climate safety.

EPW Votes on Trump nominees to keep nuclear energy safe, lead EPA's international and tribal office YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee

One nominee comes from a fossil fuel company central to a backroom deal between Trump and Big Oil companies.

The other committed to uphold NRC independence, but DOGE infiltration under his watch shows he may not be the leader the agency needs.

THE HILL: East Palestine's toxic nightmare isn't over. Gutting EPA won't help. On Feb. 3, 2023, it was East Palestine, Ohio, but it could be your city or town next. If the EPA is not fully funded, if these rollbacks continue unabated, who will be there to support your community and your families when an environmental disaster strikes?

Trump's EPA has abandoned American families.

When environmental disaster strikes, how will a decimated EPA protect your community?
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MAP: Repeal of clean energy tax credits would cause US power bills to rise

Happy Fourth!
 
To celebrate, Republicans just passed a bill declaring independence from domestic clean energy, raising families' energy bills by up to $400/year.
 
All to enrich their fossil fuel megadonors.

Republicans voted to raise families' energy bills by up to $400 per year.

All so their fossil fuel megadonors can sell more oil, gas, and gasoline.

Trump’s Big, Beautiful-for-Billionaires Bill is one massively destructive piece of legislation.

Republicans’ “Big, Beautiful Bill” robs American families.

"They’re taxing wind and solar while fossil fuel gets the biggest subsidy in history by making it free for themselves to pollute. The new renewables tax will make electricity prices worse for American families, give China a huge advantage, and accelerate climate change and climate-driven economic upheaval—all so Republican oil and gas donors can make even bigger profits." - Ranking Member Whitehouse

The polluting fossil fuel industry is running the Republican Party and using government power to kill its clean energy competition.

This bill isn’t policy. It’s pay-off.

How renewables are saving Texans billions A dive into ERCOT data reveals how solar energy is driving down electricity costs for Texas

Thanks to cheaper renewables, Texas families are saving billions on energy costs.

Meanwhile, Republicans are trying to tank American-made clean energy in their Big Beautiful-for-Billionaires Bill. All so their fossil fuel megadonors donors can sell more oil, gas, and gasoline.

"Big, Beautiful Bill" X Raises energy prices X Worsens air quality X Turbocharges climate change X Rescinds methane emissions fee X Guts auto fuel economy standards

For a $1 billion donation, Trump pledged to fulfill fossil fuel execs' dirty wish list to sell out the American people.

Promises made, promises kept.

The fossil fuel industry already benefits from $700+ billion a year in subsidies.

The real "SCAM" here is sending families' energy bills soaring just to enrich the fossil fuel megadonors that helped elect Trump.

How Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will raise household energy costs Analysts agree on one thing: Congress is poised to increase energy bills by hundreds of dollars per household.

Republicans don’t want you to know they’re raising your energy bills in their “big, beautiful bill.”

Maps of national temperature highs.

Senators Barrasso, Thune, and McConnell.

A heat wave is crushing records across the country, and climate change is going to make events like this more frequent and extreme.

At the same time, Republicans are pushing their bill to send energy prices soaring and unleash even more climate change causing-emissions.

Senate GOP seeks to reward oil drillers amid deep cuts to wind and solar The Senate version of President Donald Trump’s tax-cutting bill slashes green energy tax credits but contains generous subsidies for petroleum companies that use captured carbon dioxide in oil product...

The Republicans' Big, Beautiful-for-Billionaires bill is exactly what their fossil fuel megadonors paid for.

They're selling out American families, all to help Big Oil sell more gasoline.

How can EEI betray American families when giant energy cost increases are on the line? And why try to erase public record of their betrayal?

Make no mistake, this "big, beautiful bill" will be a disaster for American families.