Senate Environment and Public Works ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse has been going on tour, hosting events in coastal, predominantly Republican states to discuss climate change.
The Rhode Island Democrat was in North Carolina on Tuesday, leading a roundtable with Rep. Deborah Ross (D-N.C.) on the impacts of rising sea levels and worsening natural disasters on home insurance prices.
Whitehouse held a similar event in Houston, Texas, in August and in St. Petersburg, Florida, last year.
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“We’re going to states, particularly ones like Rhode Island that have coastal risk, and looking at the extent to which that risk is hammering homeowners’ insurance,” Whitehouse said in an interview.
