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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 2h

Trump and his fossil fuel donors made a deal to jack up your energy bill.

They’re hoping you don’t notice.

Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 21h

The climate-driven insurance crisis is threatening the global economy.

It’s the $25 trillion dollar hit the fossil fuel industry doesn’t want you to know about.

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 1d

Trump nominees for our nation’s nuclear safety regulator & EPA's chemical office testify.

One faces political pressure to prioritize speed over nuclear safety.

The other spent 20+ years lobbying to protect polluters over people.

EPW considers Trump’s picks for nuclear safety regulator & EPA's chemical office

YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 2d

Yet more evidence that the Trump administration’s climate denial report is full of lies. Who could’ve guessed…

How a major DOE report hides the whole truth on climate change

www.politico.com

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 7d

This will raise Americans' energy prices.

The President should serve the American people, not just the ones that voted for him.

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 7d

The American people deserve a President not a mob boss.

Trump Cuts Funding to 16 Blue States That Didn’t Vote for Him

Amid the shutdown fight, Donald Trump is increasing pressure on states with two Democratic senators.

newrepublic.com

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 8d

On one side of the Permian basin, good policy cut methane pollution in half. It’s keeping the air clean & gas in the pipes, saving ratepayers tens of millions of dollars.

The other? Big Oil pulls Republican strings, and toxic pollution continues unabated.

NM officials say methane rules have cut emissions by half compared to Texas

SANTA FE — The invisible line splitting the Permian Basin divides the oil-rich area into two different states — Texas and New Mexico — with two different sets of rules

www.abqjournal.com

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 8d

Families are paying higher premiums, insurers are dropping policyholders, and extreme weather disasters keep piling up.

If we don’t deal with the underlying cause, it really is deck chairs on the Titanic.

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 8d

When it comes to sky-high premiums and climate-driven chaos in homeowners’ insurance, Florida is first and worst.

Other states will follow until the insurance crisis brings down our whole economy.

How McKinsey and Climate Change Wrecked Insurance

A secret report shows that Florida underwriters were banking massive profits while stiffing customers. Welcome to insurance in the era of climate collapse.

newrepublic.com

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 9d

Coal is deadly for families and the planet.

Coal power is the most expensive and polluting of any energy source.

As Trump wages war on affordable, clean energy to appease his fossil fuel donors, he's jacking up Americans’ energy costs and tanking Americans’ health.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 10d

New reporting shows the Trump administration has plans to open up 13.1 million acres of protected federal land for coal mining.

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 9d

Classic Trump corruption. His fossil fuel donors get rich selling more gas and more oil while your energy bills continue to climb.

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 10d

Climate change is rocking the insurance industry and sending families’ premiums soaring.

The domino effect to crashing property values threatens to trash our entire economy—just like 2008.

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 16d

More about Democrats’ opposition to EPA’s dangerous proposal and failure to protect the American people ⤵️
www.epw.senate.gov/public/index...

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 16d

NEWS: Defying decades of evidence and a landmark Supreme Court decision, Trump's EPA is trying to formally deny that greenhouse gases are harmful.

Led by @whitehouse.senate.gov & @schumer.senate.gov, Senate Dems are fighting back against this assault on our health and our climate.

Scientists, financial experts, international governments, and the American public agree that climate change is a looming crisis.

Greenhouse-gas driven climate change is driving extreme weather, flooding, erosion, sea-level rise, heat waves, drought, catastrophic wildfires, famine, smog pollution, and other disasters. These effects drive illness, hospital visits, and deaths, as well as displacement, asset loss, infrastructure damage, rising insurance premiums, declining home values, and long-term destabilization of the national economy ...

And yet, in this proposal, EPA proposes to abdicate all responsibility to address this dangerous pollution.

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 16d

Led by @whitehouse.senate.gov and @schumer.senate.gov, Senate Dems are fighting for your health, our clean air, and a livable climate.
www.epw.senate.gov/public/index...

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 16d

Trump’s EPA is launching the next phase of Big Oil’s corrupt climate fraud operation.

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 20d

When even your own numbers show your fossil fuel handouts will hike prices at the pump...

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 21d

Scientists confirm greenhouse gas emissions harm human health. In other news, Pope is Catholic.

Top Scientists Find Growing Evidence That Greenhouse Gases Are, in Fact, a Danger

www.nytimes.com

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 21d

Republicans in Congress dance whatever jig their fossil fuel donors demand.

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 22d

More on @whitehouse.senate.gov's investigation into polluter influence behind EPA’s proposed repeal of the endangerment finding ⤵️
www.epw.senate.gov/public/index...

Whitehouse Investigates Fossil Fuel, Polluter Influence Behind EPA’s Proposed Repeal of Endangerment Finding

EPW Ranking Member raises concerns about the level of involvement from industry groups, which are poised to cash in on a pro-polluter agenda at the expense of American families Washington, D.C.—...

www.epw.senate.gov

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 22d

NEWS: @whitehouse.senate.gov investigates extent of industry groups’ back-room involvement in EPA's proposal to repeal the endangerment finding.

This dangerous decision would allow polluters and their enablers to reap billions while poisoning our air and endangering families.

Senator Whitehouse launches investigation into fossil fuel and polluter influence behind Trump EPA's decision to overturn a landmark climate finding.

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 22d

A former fossil fuel CEO wants you to believe climate change is "not incredibly important." Fork found in kitchen.

Energy Secretary Attacks Offshore Wind and Dismisses Climate Change

www.nytimes.com

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 22d

The Army Corps must do better to address problems like coastal storm risk and political bias in its decision-making.

It’s time for the agency to work with Congress to serve the American people.

Dems Address Army Corps Challenges and Reform

YouTube video by Senate Environment & Public Works Committee

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 22d

Hiding the facts from the American public won’t erase the mounting costs of climate change, but it will erase the best evidence we have that American industry is cleaner than many of its competitors.

You know it’s bad when even industry players aren’t applauding Trump's EPA.

EPA says companies shouldn’t have to report planet-warming emissions

The announcement amounts to a major rollback that would eliminate the primary means of tracking climate goals. The EPA framed it as a cost-cutting measure.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 24d

The corrupt fossil fuel industry paid millions to put Trump in office.

Now, they’re getting exactly what they paid for—they get to sell more gas, while energy prices skyrocket for American families.

Families’ energy bills are already 10% HIGHER since Trump was sworn in.

Oil Tycoons Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off.

The Trump administration has opened land to drilling and is moving to roll back environmental restrictions and hobble renewable energy. But crude prices have dropped.

www.wsj.com

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