WASHINGTON, June 16 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse issued the following press release:

In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), the Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, published an op-ed on Tuesday in WBUR (https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2026/06/16/climate-change-global-warming-democratic-party-trump-sheldon-whitehouse) encouraging Democrats to ignore the "climate hushers" and take up a fight for climate action and against the villainous fossil-fuel industry that peddles in dark-money corruption and climate-denial fraud.

"There's a thing out there called 'climate hushing' - people arguing that Democrats should stop talking about climate change if they want to win elections. Whatever the...