12-5-2025 "Pouring Literal Gasoline on the Fires of Hate" The Crucial Years Bill McKibben's Substack. An honest viewpoint about the Trump doctrine of protecting the use of gasoline and ICE for automobiles
Nov 20, 2025
Sheldon Whitehouse represents Rhode Island in the U.S. Senate, where he champions policies to uphold American leadership in the world, protect our planet in a changing climate, and hold the powerful accountable.
11-18-25 The United Nations climate summit, known as COP30, will wrap up later this week, and its achievements will likely be more muted this year. Delegates from nearly 200 countries are meeting near the Amazon rainforest, but the Trump administration decided not to send anyone. As part of our Tipping Point series, William Brangham discussed more with former Secretary of State John Kerry.
Nov 16, 2025
Bill Gates recently offered us some of his 'wisdom' on the subject of climate change. Donald Trump immediately seized on Gates' 17 page essay, saying he had "just won the war on the Climate Change Hoax". So, has this little exchange fatally undermined the COP30 conference in Brazil, or was it dead on arrival anyway?
Nov 6, 2025 #COP30 #ClimateSummit #BelémCOP30
Finland’s President delivers a powerful speech at COP30 in Brazil, urging bold climate action, scientific leadership, and unity to end fossil fuel dependence. “Pessimists won’t solve the crisis — optimists and realists will.” For more details, watch our story and subscribe to our channel, DRM News.
DRM News presents live coverage of the opening remarks at COP30, the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference, hosted in Belém, Brazil, from November 10-21, 2025. Global leaders, including heads of state from major emitters and vulnerable nations, will address urgent climate action, adaptation strategies, and finance commitments. The summit emphasizes Amazon preservation and equitable transitions. Remarks commence approximately at 1330 GMT, with expert analysis on geopolitical implications.
August 5 | Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) dig into the Big, Beautiful-for-Billionaires Betrayal Bill and how that budget will raise the energy and electricity prices for working Americans.
Sheldon Whitehouse represents Rhode Island in the U.S. Senate, where he champions policies to uphold American leadership in the world, protect our planet in a changing climate, and hold the powerful accountable.
June 25, 2025 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) tears down a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing as the unspooling of a fossil fuel-funded GOP fever dream.
Sheldon Whitehouse represents Rhode Island in the U.S. Senate, where he champions policies to uphold American leadership in the world, protect our planet in a changing climate, and hold the powerful accountable.
May 19, 2025 Making the Case After years of finger-pointing and false claims of weaponization of the Department of Justice, the Trump Administration turned around and did just about everything they absurdly accused the Biden White House of doing. In this episode, Senator Whitehouse is joined by Senator Adam Schiff to discuss a handful of this administration’s many misdeeds.
Sheldon Whitehouse represents Rhode Island in the U.S. Senate, where he champions policies to uphold American leadership in the world, protect our planet in a changing climate, and hold the powerful accountable.
June 4, 2025 | U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, delivers his 299th speech urging his colleagues to wake up to the threat of climate change. Whitehouse discusses how President Trump and the fossil fuel industry are actively trying to tank renewable energy and stick Americans with the costs and harms of climate change.
Sheldon Whitehouse represents Rhode Island in the U.S. Senate, where he champions policies to uphold American leadership in the world, protect our planet in a changing climate, and hold the powerful accountable.
May 25, 2025
28The EPA has reportedly drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. Now, with the rise of artificial intelligence technology, demand on power plants is increasing, in large part due to AI’s reliance on data centers. Ali Rogin speaks with Kenza Bryan, climate reporter for The Financial Times, for more.
Apr 2, 2023
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The fossil fuel industry received more than a TRILLION dollars in direct subsidies in 2022, and some say if the impacts on the climate and environment were factored in, that number would be nearly six times higher. But, if we take the subsidies away, asks the fossil fuel industry, then how will people be able to afford to heat their homes?
5-22-24 Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland held a live hearing on how the fossil fuel industry continues it's 50 year effort that provides misinformation and disinformation on how the burning of fossil fuels creates climate change. They have announced a civil referral to the US Justice Department in an effort to hold the industry accountable for their role in creating the climate crisis. This live hearing was aired by PBS Newshour and the sound from questions asked was poor.
4-3-24 Pet Buttigieg on the Brian Taylor Cohen podcast makes it clear why we need to rapidly move to EV vehicles. YES, it is about politics and fossil fuels
3-14-24 Financial Times: As the world moves towards greener energy, a recent report suggests economies heavily reliant on oil and gas risk losing trillions of dollars in revenue. But reducing this dependence on fossil fuel revenues requires significant investments in new technologies, retraining the workforce, and diversifying sources of income. And as the FT’s Jamie Smyth explains, that may not be easy.
12-23-23 The US was for decades the exemplar of free market globalisation. That changed with Donald Trump’s 'America first' agenda. President Joe Biden’s landmark Inflation Reduction Act continues the push for re-industrialisation by using tax credits, loans and grants in a bid to create a domestic clean energy supply chain. The FT looks at three companies using IRA incentives to invest in the US and examines whether the legislation signals the end of globalisation.
Matt Chorley speaks to Noam Chomsky about the war in Ukraine, asks if the left have been too soft on Putin. They discuss Corbyn's election performances, and what hope Noam holds for the future of humanity
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at the rise of fossil fascism and ecofascism on the far right. As the world gets warmer and fossil fuels become increasingly untenable there are now glimpses of two trends within the far right that are a reaction to climate change. Ecofascism and fossil fascism.
I leaned heavily on the book White Skin, Black Fuel which you can find here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3812...