WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- The Senate Environment & Public Works Committee issued the following press release:

The Trump Administration and its billionaire fossil fuel donors bash climate science and threaten scientists all to protect the industry's pollute-for-free business model

Washington, D.C. - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), and U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) this week hosted a spotlight forum with Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and experts on the fossil fuel industry's war on climate science. The industry's desperate attempt to discredit the links between fossil fuel-driven climate change and increasingly extreme weather events serves a cle...