A Democrat-led push to codify the science behind climate change failed on the Senate floor Tuesday evening.
A resolution from Environment and Public Works ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), S. Res. 550, would have affirmed that “climate change caused by fossil fuel combustion is not a hoax.”
The resolution also said that greenhouse gas causing climate change is “sound science” and that Congress should protect climate research programs approved under law.
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But an attempt to pass the resolution through unanimous consent — a Senate mechanism to fast-track non-controversial legislation — failed after Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) objected.
