A slew of Senate Democrats introduced 16 resolutions this week affirming the science behind climate change.
The effort, led by Environment and Public Works ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), appears aimed at putting senators on the record on where they stand on climate change.
The Rhode Island Democrat cited the Trump administration’s move to undo the so-called endangerment finding — which affirms that fossil fuel emissions pose a threat to human health under the Clean Air Act — as reason that Congress should be affirming various scientific findings about the warming climate.
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“These are statements of fact, backed up by decades of scientific evidence,” Whitehouse said in a statement to POLITICO’s E&E News.
